13 Facts About Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet was born on December 5,1968 and is an American novelist.

Lydia Millet's 2020 novel A Children's Bible was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.

Lydia Millet has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Lydia Millet was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she attended the University of Toronto Schools.

Lydia Millet holds a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies, with highest honors in creative writing, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from Duke University.

Lydia Millet holds a master's in environmental policy from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and worked for Natural Resources Defense Council for two years before joining the Center for Biological Diversity in 1999 as a staff writer.

Lydia Millet is best known for her dark sense of humor, stylistic versatility, and political bent.

Lydia Millet's first book, Omnivores, is a subversion of the coming-of-age novel, in which a young girl in Southern California is tormented by her megalomaniac father and invalid mother and finally sold in marriage to a real estate agent.

Lydia Millet's second, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, is a political comedy about a trailer-park woman obsessed with the 41st American president.

Lydia Millet's fourth novel, Everyone's Pretty, is a picaresque tragicomedy about an alcoholic pornographer with messianic delusions, based partly on Lydia Millet's stint as a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications.

Sarah Weinman of the Washington Post Book World called it "both prism and truth" "With a sharp eye for small details, a keen sense of the absurd and strong empathy for its creations," Lydia Millet creates a kaleidoscope of quirky characters.

Lydia Millet can be wickedly funny, most often at the expense of the unexamined life.

In 2012, Lydia Millet received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.