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Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, New York, which is the model for Templeton, her novel's setting. She has a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has won fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. Groff's stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares among others. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband. The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008.
This has an opening to die for ... a riveting read * Scotland on Sunday * This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells . Yet Lauren Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all...as Willie slays her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric social history, origin myth and literary biography... the true 'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets. * Metro * Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic. * Easy Living * THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore. * Lorrie Moore * Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more ... There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that. * Stephen King *
