Catherine Lacey is the author of five books: Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and a short story collection, Certain American States.
Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library.
She lives in New York and Mexico.
At the Guardian Lacey tagged ten favorite biographies by writers who discarded the rules, with thrilling results. One title on the list:
Sempre Susan by Sigrid NunezRead about the other entries on the list.
After Nunez was a hired to work as an assistant to Susan Sontag, she met and began dating Sontag’s son, David Rieff who, at that point, still lived with his mother. Soon all three of them lived together, and Nunez’s account of that time is at once loving and baffled and a little annoyed and a tiny bit awed. I could not put it down.
--Marshal Zeringue
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