Lydia Millet | |
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 Millet at the 2016 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | December 5, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
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Lydia Millet (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel A Children's Bible was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.[1] She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Salon wrote of Millet's work, "The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself."[2]
- ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2020". New York Times. November 23, 2020.
- ^ Miller, Laura (February 4, 2008). "The man who loved money: Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman–and his salvation–in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel". Salon.com.