Lauren Groff
Author of Fates and Furies
About the Author
Lauren Groff graduated from Amherst College and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Fates and Furies. Arcadia won of the Medici Book Club Prize. Her fiction has also won the Paul Bowles Prize show more for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of the Best American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Lauren Groff
The Midnight Zone 8 copies
Delicate Edible Birds [short story] 4 copies
The Wind [short story] 2 copies
Ghosts and Empties 2 copies
Watershed [short story] 1 copy
Fugue [short story] 1 copy
Birdie 1 copy
Majorette [short story] 1 copy
Lucky Chow Fun [short story] 1 copy
What's the Time, Mr Wolf? 1 copy
Dogs Go Wolf 1 copy
Groff Lauren 1 copy
Groff, Lauren Archive 1 copy
Sir Fleeting [short story] 1 copy
Blythe [short story] 1 copy
Associated Works
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributor — 182 copies
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Contributor — 56 copies
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Second Shelf: A Quarterly of Rare Books & Words by Women (Issue 1, Autumn 2018) — Contributor — 3 copies
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- 1978-07-23
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- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Education
- Amherst College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Occupations
- short story writer
novelist - Agent
- Bill Clegg (Burnes & Clegg, Inc.)
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I found myself talking back to the book after having read & returned it. I liked the first half. The second half was difficult and I didn't really believe it.
Why was the gallery owner a sadist? Why did he expect her to want to stay with him when he mistreated her? Now as I'm writing I wonder -- did she respond sexually to the mistreatment & so he thought it was OK? But she responded so strongly to her husband in sex, and he wasn't a sadist. I am no expert but it seems inconsistent to me.
Was there a reason why the Uncle cut her off? Why did he adopt her if he didn't want to support her? He was rich and it would have been easy for him to pay for college. Why did the Uncle cave when she blackmailed him? He could have moved the painting and denied it all -- so he wanted to pay. Why then & not for college?
Can you really contact the FBI and tell them you have oodles of absolutely incriminating documents about a financial criminal and then tell them Never Mind? Was the private investigator so good that the FBI couldn't duplicate any of her investigation?
And....
The mother was shown thinking about how much she had done for her son. Was it that she rescued his son? I expected to find that the mother had bankrolled and supported the plays but that wasn't the case.
I don't know what I think of the man. He took his wife as he wanted her to be and never saw beyond that. Same with his friends.
I think the writing is skillful and talented but it left such bad feelings.… (more)