Elizabeth Von Vogt
2003 "Ulysses" Award Winner
Elizabeth Von Vogt grew up in New York and tagged along behind Beat writers - Jack Kerouac and her brother John Clellon Holmes. She attended New York University and later taught college in Chicago for twenty years. She now lives in Maine with her husband.
The Independent Literature Insitute is proud to announce Elizabeth Von Vogt has been chosen for the 2003 "Ulysses" Award for Superior Independently Published Fiction for her astoundingly original novel - An Awful Intimacy.

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An Awful Intimacy
Winner of the Eckstrom Award
for Best Novel
"An Awful Intimacy is an exercise in complete expression, a Pygmalion autopsy, an abstraction wholly vested with sinews and bones."
Barnes & Nobel
Christopher WunderLee in the Midwest Review of Books
Amazon.com
"Von Vogt casts insightful light on what it means to survive a love and a marriage of 'awful intimacy'."
Books-A-Million
iUniverse
- Maine Sunday Telegram
"An engaging, awesome literary achievement. An Awful Intimacy belongs beside Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins."
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Other books by Elizabeth Von Vogt
Brothers Under the Skin

The story of two men, two women, three marriages, and the long journey to New York and the Twin Towers.
"How this book sings. Apollinaire would have liked to have written it. He would have applauded it chapter after chapter."
Charles Flynn
"... the book offers the clues to questions of our times... The book is intelligent, funny, serious, disturbing, beautifully written."
JoAnne White
The Marriage Martyr

Imagine a man whose love life has been so confused and absurd that at thirty-nine, he decides to devote himself completely to his married friends.
"This is a great read. I heartily recommend especially for NewYorkerphiles!"
- Greenwich Village Gazette
"Von Vogt has given us a heartfelt book keenly relevant to women asking new questions about their lives. Moreover, she does so with flashes of fine writing..."
- Maine Sunday Telegram
"I sat down and read it immediately and found it a most enjoyable story."                 Anne Charters
The Adventures of Dorothy & Marian

A parallel story of two women in two cities in the 1950's and 1970's in their search for love and revelation.
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