Elizabeth Flock is a former American journalist who reported for Time and People. She is the best-selling author of five acclaimed novels. Not to be confused with Elizabeth Flock, an Emmy Award-winning American journalist, and filmmaker, who focus on gender and justice and lives in Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Flock was born in Connecticut. She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English and Psychology. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Elizabeth Flock reported for Time and People magazines before becoming a television reporter and anchor in San Francisco, California. After moving to New York, Flock became an on-air correspondent for CBS News, covering breaking news in the US and abroad.
Notably, reporting from Havana, Cuba, for Pope John Paul II’s visit with Fidel Castro; reporting from London following the death of Princess Diana; and broadcasting from Hong Kong, where she covered the handover from the British to the Chinese.
Her acclaimed debut, But Inside I'm Screaming, chronically the psychological struggles of a young television reporter in New York, was released in 2003. The novel has since been translated into seven languages and has sold nearly a quarter of a million copies.
In 2005, Flock's second novel, Me & Emma, spent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Me & Emma was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2005 by Booksense and was a Highlight Pick of the Year. In addition to being a bestseller in the UK, the novel has been published in 15 countries, translated into ten languages, and has approximately 500,000 copies worldwide.
Everything Must Go (2007) is set in Connecticut in her childhood. WGN-Radio’s Rick Kogan called the main character "one of the most interesting characters in contemporary fiction."
In 2009, MIRA Books published Sleepwalking In Daylight, a novel about a stay-at-home mother struggling with a mid-life crisis while her teenage daughter secretly descends into a dark world of drugs and disillusionment.
In 2012, the much-anticipated follow-up to Me & Emma called What Happened To My Sister. The story picks up the day its predecessor leaves off and follows young Carrie Parker and her mother as they drive away from the shards of their shattered lives to begin anew.
Elizabeth Flock currently lives in New York City.
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