"Lauren Groff is the author of four novels and two short story collections. Her 2021 novel, Matrix, was a National Book Award finalist and President Barack Obama named one of his favorite books of the year. Groff is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award and twice for the Kirkus Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists." (Promo Copy)