Elizabeth Crook is the author of six novels, including The Night Journal, which received a Spur award from Western Writers of America; Monday, Monday, which received the Jesse H. Jones Award from The Texas Institute of Letters and was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2014; and The Which Way Tree, named by the Texas State Library and Archives as the 2024 adult Great Read “to represent the state’s literary landscape” at the National Book Festival. Her recent book, The Madstone, was lauded in The Washington Post as “the perfect adventure to curl up with on some desolate winter night.” Elizabeth has written for The Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Texas Monthly and is co-writer, with Stephen Harrigan, of the screenplay for The Which Way Tree, currently in development with Picturehouse and PantherDog LLC. She is a recipient of the Texas Book Festival’s prestigious Texas Writer Award and lives in Austin.
