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Elizabeth Kostova made her name with her first novel, "The Historian," a modern-day vampire tale. With her second novel, "The Swan Thieves," she tries her hand at a modern-day bodice ripper. Kostova ...

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Five years ago, Elizabeth Kostova located a juicy artery of pop culture with her atmospheric vampire novel, "The Historian." It turned into a guilty pleasure for millions of readers and was translated ...

As a child, Elizabeth Kostova reveled in the stories of Dracula spun by her professorial father. After marinating the grimly titillating tales over a few decades, she decided to explore the subject of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Elizabeth Kostova used some unconventional ingredients from her own life a childhood spent listening to Dracula tales, a love of Balkan folk music and a passion for libraries to ...

In 2005, Elizabeth Kostova caused a sensation with her first novel, “The Historian,” which sold 3 million copies and topped best-seller lists all over the world. The writer’s treatment of the ...

Elizabeth Kostova goes to modern-day Bulgaria to explore the sins of the country’s communist past — and the talented musician who became a victim of it — in her new novel The Shadow Land (Ballantine, ...

Why would an artist attack a painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and why would he obsessively paint portraits of a mysterious woman over and over again? These are the ...

Elizabeth Kostova, best-selling hometown author, brings her brilliant new novel “The Shadow Land” to Asheville for its national launching this week. The ticketed Malaprop’s Bookstore event takes the ...

Novelist Elizabeth Kostova is fascinated by the way a poem, a musical score and, especially, a painting, swiftly and neatly sever the past from the present. “I’ve always been struck by what a glimpse ...