Catherine Lacey (author)

For the actress, see Catherine Lacey.
Catherine Lacey
Born Tupelo, MS
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality American
Education Columbia University
Notable works Nobody Is Ever Missing
Website
www.catherinelacey.com

Catherine Lacey (born April 1, 1985) is an American writer. Her 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 New York named it "the (hands down) best book of the year."[2] It also made The New Yorker's list for the best books of 2014.[3] It has been published in Italian [4] and French.[5]

Nobody Is Ever Missing won the 2015 Late Night Library Debutlizer [6] and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.[7] In 2016, Lacey won a Whiting Award for her fiction.[8]

Lacey won a 2012 Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.[9] She has taught at Columbia University in The School of the Arts.[10] She currently resides in Chicago, IL.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Garner, Dwight (Jul 22, 2014). "Abandoning All Stability to Test Fate". The New York Times. Retrieved Feb 23, 2016. ... “Nobody Is Ever Missing” is composed mostly of long, languid sentences that push into the night like headlights. ... there’s nothing depleted about Ms. Lacey’s prose, which manages to be dreamy and fierce at the same time.
  2. ↑ Gibert, Tiffany (Nov 19, 2014). "The 10 best books of 2014". TimeOut New York. Retrieved Feb 23, 2016. ...the (hands-down) best book of the year ...
  3. ↑ Heller, Nathan (Dec 23, 2014). "The Best Books of 2014". The New Yorker. Retrieved Feb 23, 2016. ...incantatory, cool, and unerringly tuned to fresh detail. Lacey writes with a peculiar suppleness entirely her own...
  4. ↑ "Nessuno scompare davvero - SUR". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Personne ne disparaît". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ "2015 Debut-litzer Winners - Late Night Library". 11 August 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Piepenbring, Dan (23 March 2016). "Introducing the Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  9. ↑ "New York Foundation for the Arts". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ http://arts.columbia.edu/writing/faculty/catherine-lacey
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