Comment on Maine author Elizabeth Strout named New York Public Library Lion

Pulitzer Prize-winning Maine author Elizabeth Strout is among this year’s five New York Public Library Lions, the institution’s highest honor given to cultural icons. The other recipients are Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Grammy-winning opera singer Jessye Norman, poet Claudia Rankine and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow. “These five icons have shaped our culture in immeasurable ways,” New York Public Library President Anthony W.