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Elizabeth Dewberry

Elizabeth Dewberry

Elizabeth Dewberry is the critically acclaimed author of Sacrament of Lies, Break the Heart of Me, and Many Things Have Happened Since He Died. She has been praised for her exquisite writing, her suspenseful plotting, and her richly drawn characters. Her latest novel, His Lovely Wife, is the story of a woman who, to her surprise—because she was not a Princess Diana fanatic—finds that Diana’s death affects her so deeply that it triggers an identity crisis. She feels defined by her marriage and society as nothing more than “the lovely wife” of her brilliant but emotionally unavailable physicist husband, and is determined to find authenticity in her life. The novel was published by Harcourt in March 2006.

She has written two full-length plays, Flesh and Blood (which premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays) and Four Joans and a Fire-Eater, as well as several one-acts, all of which have been produced professionally and/or published.

Dewberry's work has appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, Southern Living, 21st, The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway, and elsewhere. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, was educated at Vanderbilt and Emory Universities (B.S. and Ph.D.), and currently lives outside Tallahassee, Florida, with her husband, author Robert Olen Butler, and their three bichon frises and two cats.