“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
Groff, who was born on this date in
1978, writes both novels and short stories and is a frequent contributor to
such magazines as The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares. Her novel The Monsters of Templeton
debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the
Best Books of 2008 by Amazon.com and the San Francisco Chronicle.
A native of one of my favorite
American small towns – Cooperstown, NY – she is a graduate of Amherst College
and the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Wisconsin in
Madison. She now makes her home in
Gainesville, FL.
Her most recent novel, the
bestselling Fates and Furies, was
nominated for both a National Book Award and Amazon’s top prize. 
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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