| Now is the time for qualified Soldiers to apply for the Army's Broadening Opportunity Program, said Joel Strout, the program manager. |
| Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of interconnected stories set in coastal Maine. |
| Strout shifts perspective among various characters, but Jim and Bob are the most compellingly drawn, travelling along parallel paths that began with their father's accident. |
| Strout paints a wonderfully complex portrait of these superficially simple people. |
| Strout, trained in the law and married to a former Maine attorney general, covers the case with easy clarity, ever alert to the intersection of personal politics and legal strategy. |
| Strout received the fiction award for Olive Kitteridge, a collection of interrelated short stories forming a novel. |
