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| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) Syracuse University (MA) |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
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Lily King (born 1963) is an American novelist.
King grew up in Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. [1]
King's first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999), won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second novel, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Her third novel, Father of the Rain (2010), was a New York Times Editors Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Novel of the Year, and winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction [2] and the Maine Fiction Award. [3]
King's fourth novel, Euphoria (2014), was inspired by events in the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead. [4] It won the inaugural Kirkus Prize for Fiction [5] and the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction, [6] and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award. [7] Euphoria was listed among The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014, [4] TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014, [8] and the Amazon Best Books of 2014.
King is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship [9] and a Whiting Award. [10] Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train , as well as in anthologies. King's first collection of stories, "Five Tuesdays in Winter," was published in 2021. [11]
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