Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian. Read full biography of Elizabeth Kostova →
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it... →
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as... →
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not... →
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in... →
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will... →
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in... →
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.