Catherine Lacey (author)

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 won the 2015 Late Night Library Debutlizer [9] and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.[10] In 2016, Lacey won a Whiting Award for her fiction.[11]

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.[12][13] 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." [14]

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.[15] In 2012 Lacey won an Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts[16] that she credits in giving her the financial freedom to finish Nobody Is Ever Missing.[17]

In August 2015, she married actor and teacher Peter Musante; they divorced the next year. Lacey has been partnered with writer Jesse Ball since 2016.[18] She has taught at Columbia University in the Writing Program at the School of the Arts.[19]

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