Coco Mellors grew up in London and New York, where she received her MFA in fiction from New York University. Her first novel, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, was a Sunday Times bestseller, has been translated into over twenty languages, and is currently being adapted for television. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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American Fantasy (2026)
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