Lauren Groff
in conversation with André Bernard
July 26, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, join author André Bernard, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for a second season of conversations with literary masters. On July 26, Bernard speaks with New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Groff.
Lauren Groff is the author of seven novels, including Matrix (2021), Florida (2018), and Fates and Furies (2015, President Barack Obama’s favorite novel of the year), all of which were finalists for the National Book Award. Groff’s most recent novel, The Vaster Wilds (2023), follows a servant girl who has escaped from a colonial settlement carrying nothing but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of God that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her civilization has taught her.
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Lauren Groff is a New York Times-bestselling author of seven novels, including Matrix (2021), Florida (2018), and Fates and Furies (2015, President Barack Obama’s favorite novel of the year), all of which were finalists for the National Book Award. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
In 2024, Groff opened The Lynx Books, a general-interest bookstore in Gainesville, Florida, emphasizing books that are currently challenged or banned in Florida, as well as those by BIPOC authors, LGBTQ+ authors, and Florida authors.
Photo: Eli Sinkus
The author of five books of literary miscellany, André Bernard was a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, Editorial Director of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and VP and Publisher of Harcourt Brace before joining the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as its Vice President, administering its Fellowship program.