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Lily King

Lily King
Lily King’s novels include The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, and Father of the Rain. Her most recent, Euphoria, has won numerous awards and was named one of the ten best books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review, is being translated into numerous languages, and will be a feature film.


On the Foods We Bring From Deepest Childhood Into Grown-Up Life

Lily King on Baking Elephant Ears
May 25, 2022  By Lily King
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“Every Page Holds an Answer.” Lily King on Shirley Hazzard’s The Evening of the Holiday

In Praise of a Great Literary Love
November 9, 2021  By Lily King
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Lily King on Writing the Novel She Needed 30 Years Ago

"But where were the books about women writers? Where were the books about their struggles?"
November 13, 2020  By Lily King
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How Judy Blume Changed My Life

Lily King on the Book That Got Her Through Her Parents' Divorce
May 4, 2016  By Lily King
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