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    Lydia Millet

    Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; her second, Fight No More (2018), won an American Academy of Arts and Sciences short fiction award. Ativists is her third work of short fiction. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.

    Lydia Millet

    Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; her second, Fight No More (2018), won an American Academy of Arts and Sciences short fiction award. Ativists is her third work of short fiction. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.

    Awards

    Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2012

    Shortlisted — PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, 2017

    Longlisted — Story Prize, 2018

    Longlisted — National Book Award, 2020

    Longlisted — Aspen Words Literary Prize, 2021

    Longlisted — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2025

    Books by Lydia Millet

    • Dinosaurs: A Novel

      Lydia Millet

      Paperback, 2023

      One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • An Oprah Daily Favourite Book of 2022

      A stunning new novel from the author...

    • We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

      Lydia Millet

      Paperback, 2025

      This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened

    • We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

      Lydia Millet

      Hardback, 2024

      A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy

    • We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

      Lydia Millet

      E Book

      A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy

    • Atavists: Stories

      Lydia Millet

      Hardback, 2025

      A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm

    • Atavists: Stories

      Lydia Millet

      E Book

      A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm

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