Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and two other story collections, including Florida. Winner of The Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, she has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and her books have been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, where she and her husband own the independent bookstore The Lynx.
These are stories of fracture and survival, of the fulcrums on which lives tilt. On finishing Brawler, the world felt more densely peopled, richer with stories. Groff reminds us of the myriad human galaxies all around us, spinning off brightly into the dark. -- Melissa Harrison, author of 'All Among the Barley' Her writing has a timeless quality * The Times (on The Vaster Wilds) * Groff's writing is muscular and precise, her themes wildly resonant * Sunday Times (on Matrix) * An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic -- Sarah Waters (on Matrix) It's as brightly lit as an illuminated manuscript -- Naomi Alderman (on Matrix) Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts * New York Times (on Fates and Furies) * Groff's lush writing has a compelling awareness of what is unsaid * The Times (on Fates and Furies) *