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About Lydia Millet
American novelist
Lydia Millet is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel A Children's Bible was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has drawn praise for its language and style, with Salon describing it as “flawlessly beautiful” and suggesting that it reaches toward an experience that comes before language itself. The New York Times Book Review named A Children's Bible one of the ten best books of the year.
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