1. Lauren Grodstein is an American novelist and professor at Rutgers University-Camden who is known for her use of male characters and family narratives.
15 Facts About Lauren Grodstein
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Lauren Grodstein's novels include the Today Show Read with Jenna pick We Must Not Think of Ourselves, the New York Times-bestselling A Friend of the Family, along with The Explanation for Everything were Washington Post Books of the Year, and A Friend of the Family was a New York Times Editors' Choice.
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Lauren Grodstein grew up in North Jersey, in a Jewish family, and has family members in France who survived the Holocaust.
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Lauren Grodstein taught creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles and Cooper Union in New York from 2003 to 2004.
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In 2005, Lauren Grodstein became an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden, where she currently works as an associate English professor and teaches creative writing, modern drama, and fiction and nonfiction courses.
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Lauren Grodstein is a member of the Department of Childhood Studies.
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Lauren Grodstein's debut is a short story collection including ten stories, many of which share a theme of characters keeping their personal feelings to themselves and rarely saying what they mean.
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Lauren Grodstein's novel is about a single mother, Karen, who is writing a memoir for her son, Jake, to read after she passes away.
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Lauren Grodstein's best-selling work to date, We Must Not Think of Ourselves was selected as the December 2023 Read with Jenna pick on the Today Show.
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Lauren Grodstein states that literature has been a natural interest for her since she was a child.
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Lauren Grodstein was born on November 19,1982, in New York City.
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Lauren Grodstein was raised in a Jewish family by her mother Adele, a painter, and her father Gerald, a physician.
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Lauren Grodstein has a younger sister and a younger brother.
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Lauren Grodstein wrote a New York Times article on October 31,2009, entitled "Take Me to the Election" in which she talks about New Jersey's upcoming gubernatorial election and the challenges of discussing it with her class.
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Lauren Grodstein was nominated for the Philolexian Prize, a Columbia University award for literary work.