Lauren Groff
American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction spans Florida swamps, medieval abbeys, and contemporary anxieties. Fates and Furies was a finalist for the National Book Award. Matrix won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is one of the most admired literary novelists of her generation.
Works
- The Monsters of TempletonWoman returns to small hometown to uncover its prehistoric past and her own history
- Fates and FuriesDual narratives of a marriage's fury and grace revealed through competing perspectives
- FloridaInterconnected stories of Florida residents haunted by desire, violence, and transformation
- MatrixMedieval nun builds abbeys while wrestling with spiritual doubt and earthly ambition
- The Vaster WildsWoman alone survives in colonial North American wilderness confronting nature and herself