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Catherine Lacey (born April 9, 1985) is an American writer. Career. Lacey's first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dwight Garner, in The New York Times, called her prose "dreamy and fierce at the same time." [1] . Time Out named it "the (hands down) best book of the year." [2] .
Catherine Lacey is the author of five books: Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and a short story collection, Certain American States. Her honors include the Brooklyn Book Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library.
Mar 23, 2023 · Catherine Lacey invents the ultimate fun-house novel for her exploration of biography and art. By Hillary Kelly. Photograph and video by Mark Lim for The Atlantic. March...
Mar 18, 2023 · A reporter by trade, she digs into X’s archives and legacy, compelled to understand the woman who had fascinated and terrified her. C.M. knew X was willing to trample on others in service of...
Catherine Lacey is the author of four novels: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Pew, and Biography of X, as well as a story collection, Certain American States. Her honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. She lives in New York and México.
When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified.
Jul 21, 2020 · Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance.
