In 2017, Granta Magazine named Groff one of the Best of Young American Novelists of her generation. President Barack Obama chose it as his favorite book of 2015. It was nominated for the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and was featured in numerous 'Best of 2015' fiction lists, including the selection by as the Best Book of 2015.

Fates and Furies is a portrait of a 24-year marriage from two points of view, first the husband's and then the wife's. Her third novel, Fates and Furies, was released in 2015 and was also a New York Times and Booksense bestseller. The novel was recognized as one of the Best Books of 2012 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Globe and Mail, Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews. A New York Times and Booksense bestseller, it received favorable reviews from the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. Groff's second novel, Arcadia, was released in 2012 and tells the story of the first child born in a fictional 1960s commune in upstate New York. It featured stories published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Five Points, Ploughshares, and the anthologies Best New American Voices 2008, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best American Short Stories 2007, 2010, and 2014 editions.

Groff's first collection of short stories, Delicate Edible Birds, was released in January 2009. It is interspersed with voices from characters drawn from the town's history as well as James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, which is also set in a fictionalized Cooperstown called Templeton. The Monsters of Templeton is a contemporary tale about coming home to Templeton, a representation of Cooperstown, New York. The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers in 2008, and named one of the Best Books of 2008 by and the San Francisco Chronicle. It was well received by Stephen King, who read it before publication and wrote an early review in Entertainment Weekly. Groff's first novel, The Monsters of Templeton, was published by Hyperion on February 5, 2008, and debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.

She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction. Groff was born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. She has written four novels and two short story collections, including Fates and Furies (2015), Florida (2018), and Matrix (2021). Lauren Groff (born July 23, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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