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Lauren Grodstein

Biography

Lauren Grodstein

Lauren Grodstein is the author of six novels, including the New York Times bestseller A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, the Washington Post Book of the Year THE EXPLANATION OF EVERYTHING, and her latest, WE MUST NOT THINK OF OURSELVES.

Lauren’s work has been translated into French, Turkish, German, Hebrew and other languages, and her essays and reviews have been widely published. She teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in New Jersey with her husband and children.

Lauren Grodstein

Books by Lauren Grodstein

by Lauren Grodstein - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Inspired by a little-known piece of history --- the underground group that kept an archive to ensure that the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II were not lost to history --- this is a heart-wrenching novel of love and defiance that People calls "gripping, emotional, and against all odds, hopeful."

by Lauren Grodstein - Fiction

College professor Andy Waite is picking up the pieces of a shattered life. Between his research in evolutionary biology and caring for his young daughters, his days are reassurringly safe, if a bit lonely. But when Melissa Potter --- charismatic, unpredictable and devout --- asks him to advise her study of intelligent design, he agrees. Suddenly, the world that Andy has fought to rebuild is rocked to its foundations.