Kostova biography
The Historian.
Kostova biography
Elizabeth Kostova
American writer (born 1964)
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novelThe Historian.
Early life
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova was born Elizabeth Johnson in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville.
She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University[1] and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress.[2]
She is married to a Bulgarian IT professional and has taken his family name.[citation needed] Her sister, Victoria Johnson, is also an author.[3]
The Historian
Kostova's interest in the Dracula legend began with the stories her father told her about the vampire when she was a child.[4] The family lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972, while her father was teaching at a local university; d