Elizabeth Crook

(b.1959)

Born in Houston, Crook lived in Nacogdoches and San Marcos, Texas, with her parents, brother and sister until 1966 when the family moved to Washington D.C., where her father, William H. Crook, was director of VISTA for Lyndon Johnson. Later, the family moved to Canberra, Australia, where her father was U.S. ambassador to Australia. Returning to Texas, Crook graduated from San Marcos High School in 1977. She attended Baylor University for two years before transferring to Rice University, from which she graduated in 1982

Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Raven's Bride (1991)
   Promised Lands (1994)
   The Night Journal (2006)
   Monday, Monday (2014)
   The Which Way Tree (2018)
   The Madstone (2023)

Elizabeth Crook recommends

Red Dog Farm (2025)
Nathaniel Ian Miller
"Red Dog Farm is, in one sense, about one family, one farm, a herd of cattle, and a first love. But pull back the camera to the full frame of the vast and stunning landscape of Iceland and you'll find yourself spellbound by the broadest of tales, an age-old, worldwide story of what holds us to the people and places we love, and to the ways of life that we choose. You'll care deeply about these people. You'll even care deeply about their cows."

Sweet Vidalia (2024)
Lisa Sandlin
"With her keen understanding of the human heart and a gift for laying it bare on the page, Lisa Sandlin has given us a beautiful story of what it takes to re-build a ruined life from the ground up. Readers will grieve with Eliza Kratke at the shocking upheaval in her marriage. They'll rejoice at her spirit. When they finish the book, they'll miss her. I certainly did."

'Til All These Things Be Done (2022)
Suzanne Moyers
"A serious and intensely gratifying page-turner that places the reader squarely in an era of political, social, and emotional turmoil in Texas. It's also a poignant love story, as Moyers presides over the lives of her characters with tenderness and a sure hand. Love, longing, and the hard persistence of hope shine in this debut novel."

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