The Body Artist

The Body Artist
AuthorDon DeLillo
LanguageEnglish
PublisherScribner
Publication date
6 Feb 2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages128 (hardback first edition)
ISBN0-7432-0395-X
OCLC44676019
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3554.E4425 B63 2001

The Body Artist is a novella written in 2001 by Don DeLillo. It explores the grieving process of a young performance artist, Lauren Hartke, following the suicide of her significantly older husband. The novella is sometimes described as a ghost story due to the appearance of an enigmatic figure that Lauren discovers hiding in an upstairs room of the house following her husband's death.