Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is the author of six books, including Matrix, Florida, and Fates and Furies, all of which were finalists for the National Book Award. Her work has won the Story Prize, the Paul Bowles Prize, and France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and has been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Her work has been published in thirty-six languages.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 161
The Pain Cave
Lauren Groff
‘I would rather have died of hypothermia than let my siblings win.’
Lauren Groff on competitiveness.