Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Cooperstown, New York, in 1978, she studied at Amherst College and received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of four novels and two short story collections, and is one of the most consistently praised American literary fiction writers of her generation. Groff's novels include The Monsters of Templeton (2008), Arcadia (2012), Fates and Furies (2015), Matrix (2021), and The Vaster Wilds (2023). Fates and Furies is a dual-perspective novel about a long marriage told first from the husband's point of view and then the wife's, revealing how dramatically different the same life looks from inside two different minds. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, was chosen by President Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015, and won the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction in 2016. Groff is widely regarded as one of the essential American literary novelists of her era, known for the ambition and beauty of her prose and the formal intelligence of her fiction. She is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (for Fates and Furies) and has been longlisted or shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and other major honours. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.