Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff\\xa0is a two-time National Book Award finalist and\\xa0the author of four novels and two collections of short stories.\\xa0 The relatively young author gathered major attention for her novel Fates and Furies \\u2013 from literary awards to a nod from President Barack Obama.\\xa0 Her newest novel, Matrix, imagines the life of Marie du France, a medieval writer who became France\\u2019s first woman poet. Her work regularly appears in\\xa0The New Yorker,\\xa0The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was named one of\\xa0Granta\\u2019s 2017 Best Young American Novelists. On April 12, 2022, Lauren Groff came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk about Matrix with Isabel Duffy.\\xa0 The two also discussed the utterly unique way in which Groff writes her novels.\\xa0 After copious research, she writes a complete first draft, tosses that away without reviewing it, writes a new draft, and repeats the process again. With Matrix, she went through eight full drafts before arriving at the final version.
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