Elizabeth Crook is the author of six novels and a recipient of the Texas Book Festival’s Texas Writer Award, the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters, and a 2024 Texas Medal of Arts Award. She has received a Spur Award from Western Writers of America and the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, among others. Her most recent novel, The Madstone, was praised by the Washington Post as “the perfect adventure to curl up with on some desolate winter night,” and The Which Way Tree was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “a ripping adventure with a show-stopping finale,” and by O, The Oprah Magazine, as “a heart-pounding adventure” with a “tough-as-nails orphan in pursuit of frontier justice” whom “you’ll follow to the ends of the earth.” The Washington Post has said that “Crook is a master at rustling up competing forces to create cinematic calamities,” and the New York Times has dubbed her “a treasure of Texas letters whose voice recalls the likes of Charles Portis and Mark Twain.”
