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Portland Arts & Lectures 2022/23: Lauren Groff
January 18, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
$90 – $355This event is part of our 39th season of Portland Arts & Lectures. Subscriptions for the five-part lecture series are on sale now.
All lectures will be held in person at The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland, OR.
For more information on the season, please see our FAQs or reach out to us at la@literary-arts.org.
Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels and two short story collections. Her 2021 novel Matrix, which Esquire described as “Incandescent… a radiant work of imagination and accomplishment,” was a National Book Award finalist and was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year. Her works have won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, and France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne. Groff is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award and twice for the Kirkus Prize, and has been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Southern Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband and two sons.