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Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers and Pew, and the short story collection Certain American States. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Believer and elsewhere. Born in Mississippi, she is based in Chicago.A dazzling novel... Unbearable loss reveals itself as the compelling, moving heart of this intricately layered novel
Sunday Times
Discerning facts from fiction is the pleasure of this Russian doll of a book: a biography of an imaginary subject, written by an imaginary biographer, housed inside a novel pretending not to be one... Biography of X is almost certainly one of the most interesting books you'll read this year
Financial Times
From the superb opening line to [Lacey's] skewering of the art world and its pretensions, her discernments on grief and loss, the book is endlessly quotable... Come for the glamorous premise, stay for the icy precision of the prose
Irish Times
Catherine Lacey's brilliant, astonishing new novel... Everything in Lacey's novel is turned upside down
- Chris Kraus, Washington Post
Biography of X is the most ambitious book I've ever read from a writer of my own generation. Epic world-building revealed through intimate emotion and dangerously honed sentences; a story that mixes fact and fiction to create a new register of truth, a register that belongs entirely to Catherine Lacey. I'm awed
- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby,
I'm not sure I know another novel that manages to be so many books at once... A profound novel about love and what it can license, about the toll - and maybe the con - of genius. Only Catherine Lacey could have written it
- Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness,
A triumphant high-wire act: all the breadth of a 19th century classic with the propulsiveness of a psychological thriller. I stayed up too late, wishing to uncover X's secrets alongside the narrator
- Sara Novic, author of Girl at War,
Sly, brilliant, philosophically acute, bitingly funny... a pure joy... It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent and moving and fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow - magically - makes the nearly impossible look easy.
- Lauren Groff,
Biography of X is a work of wonder, written with brilliant attention to detail... No single book can ever truly express who a person is or was. Catherine Lacey's ambitious novel promises no such thing - and is all the more fun for it
New Statesman
By turns laugh-out-loud funny and painfully sad... I couldn't help finding it all heartbreakingly real
Telegraph
[A] haunting, genre-bending novel... It's like looking at a family photograph in which something truly extraordinary - an avalanche or alien invasion - is taking place in the background
Guardian
Breathtaking in its scope and rigor, this unforgettable novel pushes contemporary fiction to dizzying heights. A triumph
Kirkus
[A] blockbuster novel... truly outstanding
Wall Street Journal
Utterly compelling... Exploring themes including freedom, truth, identity and myth-making on personal, political and national levels
Daily Mail
Consistently playful and inventive... We get the sense of a writer hitting a rich seam and mining it for all it's worth
TLS
Intricate, masterfully crafted and sprawling
The List
Mesmerising, provocative, deeply impressive
Spectator
Prismatic and brilliant
Vanity Fair
The most inventive and playful novel of the year... Lacey...is at her creative apex with Biography of X
Big Issue
An audacious novel of art and ideas set in an alternate late 20th century... This is brilliant
Publishers Weekly
Remarkable
Scotsman
Strange and dystopian and vividly imagined... Beneath the counterfactuals, and the glamour and squalor of Manhattan nightlife, and the mythologies bought and sold, she's telling a love story
New York Times
A tour-de-force
Library Journal