Catherine Lacey (author)

Catherine Lacey (born April 9, 1985) is an American writer.

For the actress, see Catherine Lacey.

Catherine Lacey
Born (1985-04-09) April 9, 1985
Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia University
Notable worksNobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers
Notable awardsWhiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
Website
www.catherinelacey.com

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 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 translated into Dutch,[4] Spanish,[5] Italian,[6] French,[7] and German.[8] The novel was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.[9] In 2016, Lacey won a Whiting Award for her fiction.[10]

In 2017 Lacey was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel, The Answers, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It received several positive reviews and comparisons to Don Delillo and Margaret Atwood.[11][12] In an interview with Vogue, Lacey said, "Even the person who wrote Nobody Is Ever Missing, I can’t really speak on her behalf anymore. The text is kind of what's left of that person, and that person doesn’t exist anymore. It both makes me very uncomfortable and very relaxed, because who you are and what you think that you’re attached to vanishes very quickly."[13]

From left: Lacey, Siri Hustvedt, and Salman Rushdie at a panel on "The Writer's Life" at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival

Lacey was a founding member of 3B, a cooperatively owned and operated bed and breakfast in downtown Brooklyn, where she lived as she wrote her first novel.[14] In 2012 Lacey won an Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts[15] that she credits in giving her the financial freedom to finish Nobody Is Ever Missing.[16]

Her 2020 novel, Pew, was shortlisted for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize[17] and won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.[18][19]

In 2023, she published her fourth novel Biography of X,[20][21][22][23] a fictional biography. The New Statesman described it as a book that "thrillingly subverts the conventions of life-writing."[24]

Personal life

In August 2015, she married actor and teacher Peter Musante; they divorced the next year. Lacey was partnered with writer Jesse Ball from 2016 to 2021.[25] She has taught at Columbia University in the Writing Program at the School of the Arts.[26]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Nobody Is Ever Missing. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374711283. ISBN 978-0374534493
  • The Answers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2017. ISBN 9780374100261. ISBN 978-0374714345 , OCLC 988710197
  • Pew. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2020. ISBN 9780374720131. ISBN 978-0374230920
  • Biography of X. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2023. ISBN 9780374606183. ISBN 978-0374606183

Short fiction

Nonfiction

References
  1. Garner, Dwight (July 22, 2014). "Abandoning All Stability to Test Fate". The New York Times. Retrieved February 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 (November 19, 2014). "The 10 best books of 2014". TimeOut New York. Retrieved February 23, 2016. ...the (hands-down) best book of the year ...
  3. Heller, Nathan (December 23, 2014). "The Best Books of 2014". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 23, 2016. ...incantatory, cool, and unerringly tuned to fresh detail. Lacey writes with a peculiar suppleness entirely her own...
  4. "Niemand Is Ooit Verloren". Das Mag. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  5. "Catherine Lacey: "Todo el mundo necesita desaparecer en algún momento"". El Cultural. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  6. "Nessuno scompare davvero – SUR". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  7. "Personne ne disparaît". Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  8. "Niemand verschwindet einfach so". Aufbau Verlag. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  9. "Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  10. Piepenbring, Dan (March 23, 2016). "Introducing the Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards". Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  11. Lorentzen, Christian (July 6, 2017). "Can You Still Write a Novel About Love". Vulture. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  12. Garner, Dwight (May 30, 2017). "'The Answers' Runs Down the Rabbit Hole of Love". The New York Times. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  13. O'Grady, Megan (June 1, 2017). "Catherine Lacey's Dating Dystopia The Answers Is This Summer's Must-Read Novel". Vogue. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  14. Lacey, Catherine (April 19, 2014). "A Way for Artists to Live". The New York Times. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  15. "New York Foundation for the Arts". Archived from the original on May 28, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  16. NYFA.org (December 16, 2015). "Conversations: Sarah Dohrmann Interviews Catherine Lacey". NYFA.org - NYFA Current. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  17. "Shortlist for Dylan Thomas Prize Is Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  18. "In the States, the Young Lions Fiction Award goes to Catherine Lacey". Publishing Perspectives. June 18, 2021.
  19. Revely-Calder, Cal (May 17, 2020). "Pew by Catherine Lacey, review: this sumptuously dark novel has spiritual weight". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  20. Khatib, Joumana (March 18, 2023). "She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  21. Wollen, Audrey (May 1, 2023). "Catherine Lacey's Provocative Novel in Disguise". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  22. Cummins, Anthony (April 1, 2023). "Catherine Lacey: 'That constant nervous Twitter energy repels me'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  23. "Catherine Lacey's Frankenstein's Monster". airmail.news. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
  24. Peirson-Hagger, Ellen (May 5, 2023). "Catherine Lacey's biography that isn't". The New Statesman. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
  25. Borrelli, Christopher (September 12, 2018). "'The Answers' author Catherine Lacey conjures sentences that can stop you cold". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
  26. "Catherine Lacey" Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Writing Program, Columbia University School of the Arts.
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