King, Lily ( - )

Genre: General Fiction

Lily King was born and raised in Massachusetts and lives in Yarmouth, ME. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her M.A. at Syracuse University. Her first novel became a New York Times Notable Book and won a Barnes & Noble Discover Award and a Whiting Writers' Award. Her second novel was named one of the best novels of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly and received the Maine Literary Award from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

Selected Bibliography

  • The Pleasing Hour: A Novel (1999)
  • The English Teacher: A Novel (2005)
  • Father of the Rain (2010)
  • Euphoria (2014) Winner of the first Kirkus prize for fiction
  • Writers and Lovers (2020)