“With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.”

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.