Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout often finds inspiration in the worlds she has already built and explored. In 2019, she brought readers back to Crosby, Maine with a set of interlinked stories centered around prickly retired schoolteacher Olive Kitteridge. Her latest novel, Oh William!, is a similar venture, this time focusing on Lucy Barton, the protagonist of Strout’s 2016 novel My Name Is Lucy Barton and 2017 companion novel-in-stories Anything Is Possible. The new book, to be published Oct.