“I have a feeling that books are a
lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in
high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.” –
Lauren Groff
Born in Cooperstown, NY (home of the
Baseball Hall of Fame) on Aug. 23, 1978 Groff writes both novels and short
stories and is a frequent contributor to magazines like The New Yorker,
Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares. Her debut novel The
Monsters of Templeton won accolades from Amazon and the San
Francisco Chronicle, and her bestselling novel Fates and Furies was
nominated for the National Book Award. Her most recent
novel, The Vaster Wilds, also has been a multiple award-winner.
A graduate of both Amherst College
and UW-Madison, she was recently named by Time Magazine as one of
America’s 100 most influential people. A
Guggenheim (“Genius”) grant recipient, she became both a book writer and seller
last year when she opened a bookstore in Gainesville, FL.
Her advice to new writers is to
think about the small stories that create the larger whole.
“Bigger stories are made out of
longer acquaintance with fact and character,” she said, “but I also love the
tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.”
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