Maria Flook

Maria Flook is an America fiction and non-fiction writer and the winner of a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award.

[1] Maria Flook's most notable books are the nonfiction works My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance, (Pantheon, 1998) and New York Times Best Seller Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod (Broadway Books, 2003).

[2] In a review of her 2014 novel Mothers and Lovers, the Boston Globe remarked that "Flook’s oeuvre is unified by her subtly witty, deep dives into family dynamics, and forbidden sexual acts and desires.

"[3] Her 2018 memoir First Person Female was criticized by Kirkus for being "lurid"; the reviewer also notes that "the author writes deeply and well when the lens is on someone else and the topics at hand.

"[4] Flooks earlier works include the novels Open Water; Family Night, which received a PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation;[5] Lux, (Little, Brown and Company, 2004); Mothers and Lovers (Roundabout Press, 2014) and a collection of stories, You Have the Wrong Man (Pantheon, 1996).