“I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.”

American novelist and former registered nurse

Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist and former registered nurse. Her fiction centers on character, family life, and personal change, and it has earned recognition from the American Library Association. Berg is known for novels that pay close attention to everyday relationships and the ways people move through change. Her writing tends to focus on interior life and domestic experience, with an emphasis on how personal and family ties shape a life.