Lauren Groff

Groff is one of the most committed literary voices working today, and I mean committed in the bodily sense. You feel her sink completely into language. Fates and Furies put her on the map, but what impresses me is the breadth: five novels, three story collections, a Guggenheim, and a 2024 spot on Time's 100 most influential people. The detail I love most is that she has worked as a bookseller, which tells you she lives inside books from every angle, not just as an author. Born in 1978, she is still very much in her prime, and I genuinely look forward to wherever her imagination goes next.

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Name (English)

Lauren Groff

Name (Japanese)

ローレン・グロッフ

Reading

ろーれん・ぐろっふ

Born

July 23, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

Cooperstown, New York, United States

Occupation

novelist / short story writer / bookseller / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

University

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2017 grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro du roman étranger

• Official sitehttps://laurengroff.com
• Xhttps://x.com/legroff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Groff
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6500240

Tags

• New York
• novelist
• short story writer
• bookseller

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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