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Elizabeth SearleElizabeth Searle is the author of four books of fiction, including GIRL HELD IN HOME, and the librettist of TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA. Her new novel, GIRL HELD IN HOME, was published in 2011. Her previous books are: CELEBRITIES IN DISGRACE, a novella that the New York Times Book Review called ‘a miniature masterpiece’; A FOUR-SIDED BED, a novel nominated for an American Library Association Book Award and released in 2011 in a new paperback and eBook edition, and MY BODY TO YOU, a story collection that won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. CELEBRITIES IN DISGRACE was produced as a short film in 2010 by Bravo Sierra, with script co-written by Elizabeth. Elizabeth's theater works have been featured in stories on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, CBS, CNN, NPR, the AP and more. Her show TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA (most recently produced in Boston in 2011), has been reviewed as ‘brilliant and touching’ and has drawn worldwide media attention.
“Elizabeth Searle’s fiction is a physical experience.” “GIRL HELD IN HOME gracefully walks the knife's edge between wild satire and ripped-from-the-headlines realism. Elizabeth Searle's new novel is sexy, funny, creepy and highly enjoyable..” |