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Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey is the author of four books: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States and Pew. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Vogue, the New York Times and elsewhere. She is a Granta Best of Young American Novelist, a Guggenheim Fellow and the winner of the 2021 New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. ‘Biography of X’ is an extract from her novel of the same title, forthcoming in 2023 from Granta Books in the UK and Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US.

Publications

Books

Biography of X

Catherine Lacey

£18.99
American Fiction

The Answers

Catherine Lacey

£8.99
American Fiction

Certain American States

Catherine Lacey

£8.99 £6.99
American Fiction

Pew

Catherine Lacey

£8.99
American Fiction

Nobody Is Ever Missing

Catherine Lacey

£7.99

Catherine Lacey on Granta.com

Fiction | Issue 162
Fiction | Issue 162

Biography of X

Catherine Lacey

‘Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.’

An extract from Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.

Fiction | Granta Books
Fiction | Granta Books

Pew

Catherine Lacey

‘The church has no thoughts. The church is brick and glass. If they ever slept there, they would see that.’

In Conversation | Granta Books
In Conversation | Granta Books

Catherine Lacey | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Catherine Lacey & Luke Neima

Catherine Lacey discuses voice, characterization and the minute details that bring a story to life

Five Things Right Now | Granta Books
Five Things Right Now | Granta Books

Catherine Lacey | Five Things Right Now

Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacey shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Fiction | Issue 139 padlock
Fiction | Issue 139 padlock

The Answers

Catherine Lacey

‘And each time I hit the tarmac I had this terrible feeling that the trip I’d just taken had never even happened, that I’d spent hundreds for a memory I could barely recall.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139

The Question of Fate

Catherine Lacey

‘The possibility that I’d unwittingly tapped into her fate and used it as fuel for a story sickened me.’

In Conversation | Issue 139
In Conversation | Issue 139

Catherine Lacey | Interview

Catherine Lacey & Louise Scothern

‘It's uncomfortable, at times, to be alive, so I see no reason why a voice in fiction shouldn't be also.’

Fiction | Issue 139
Fiction | Issue 139

Small Differences

Catherine Lacey

‘Everyone should just sit very still until they reach the calmer waters of later-young-adulthood, that promised land of lowered expectations.’

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