Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet
Millet at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
Born (1968-12-05) December 5, 1968
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Education
Genre
Notable works
  • A Children's Bible (2020)
  • Magnificence: A Novel (2012)
  • Love in Infant Monkeys (2009)
  • My Happy Life (2002)
Notable awards
Website
lydiamillet.net

Lydia Millet (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel A Children's Bible was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Salon wrote of Millet's work, "The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself."