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Lauren Groff


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Lauren Groff was born in 1978 in Cooperstown, N.Y., and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Hobart, and Five Points, as well as in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. She was awarded the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville, and has had residencies and fellowships at Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
October 2024

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The Best American Short Stories 2024
(Best American Short Stories)
Novels
   The Monsters of Templeton (2008)
   Arcadia (2012)
   Fates and Furies (2015)
   Matrix (2021)
   The Vaster Wilds (2023)
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Collections
   Delicate Edible Birds (2009)
   Florida (2018)
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Lauren Groff recommends
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The Divorcees (2024)
Rowan Beaird
"The Divorcees is gorgeously crafted, perfectly balanced, and full of complex, moving and vividly wrought characters. The sunshot pool at the Golden Yarrow, the searing desert heat, the dark glamour of the casinos will stay with me for a long time. Rowan Beaird writes with such ease and confidence that it's hard to believe this novel is her first. An excellent, deeply compelling read."
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The Road from Belhaven (2024)
Margot Livesey
"Margot Livesey is an incandescent writer, generous and graceful, always imbuing her characters with astonishing humanity and grace. I love all Livesey's books, but The Road From Belhaven has become my new favorite; I felt so deeply for Lizzie that I worried about her fate with the same love and indignation and hope I would have for a flesh-and-blood friend of my youth. This book is a cold, clear, perfect lake."
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Martyr! (2024)
Kaveh Akbar
"Kaveh Akbar is a radiant soul, a poet so agile and largehearted it comes as no surprise that his first leap into fiction is elegant, dizzying, playful. MARTYR! is the best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness for people longed for but forever unknown, the way art as eruption of life gazes back into death, and the ecstasy that sometimes arrives - like grace - when we find ourselves teetering on the knife-edge of despair."

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Anthologies containing stories by Lauren Groff
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Simpsonistas, Vol. 4 (2022)
(Simpsonistas, book 4)
edited by
Joseph Di Prisco

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Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (2015) : Fates and Furies


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