Catherine Lacey (writer)
Catherine Lacey (born April 9, 1985 in Tupelo, Mississippi ) is an American writer.
Life
Catherine Lacey Booth is the daughter of Susan Tims and George Booth, who are business people in Tupelo. She attended elementary school there and then a boarding school in Tennessee . She studied art at Loyola University New Orleans and completed a master's degree in non-literary writing from Columbia University in New York City. She changed her name to Lacey. She was a fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2016 .
Lacey has been married to Blue Man Group actor Peter Musante since 2015 .
Lacey has published short stories in The Atlantic , Vogue , Kirkus , The Village Voice, and The New York Times . Her first novel was published in 2014.
At the center of the story of the second novel, The Girlfriend Experiment, is a bizarre relationship experiment .
Works
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Nobody Is Ever Missing. Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2014.
- Nobody just disappears like that. Translation of Bettina Abarbanell . Structure, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-351-03680-5 .
- The Art of the Affair: an illustrated history of love, sex, and artistic influence. Illustrations Forsyth Harmon. Bloomsbury, 2017.
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The Answers. Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-374-71434-5 .
- The girlfriend experiment . Translation of Bettina Abarbanell. Structure, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-351-03754-3 .
- Certain American states: stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-374-26589-2 .
- Pew: A Novel . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2020.
Web links
- Literature by and about Catherine Lacey in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Catherine Lacey (writer) in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Catherine Lacey , website
- Catherine Lacey , at Aufbau-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Writing 2015-2016 Roundup. at Columbia University School of Arts, April 8, 2016.
- ^ Catherine Lacey, Peter Musante. In: New York Times. 2nd August 2015.
- ↑ Romanticism, electromagnetically induced , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from August 10, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lacey, Catherine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tupelo (Mississippi) |