Visiting Artists Series: Lily King, Novelist

Lily’s first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Her third novel, Father of the Rain (2010), was a New York Times Editors Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Novel of the Year and winner of both the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Maine Fiction Award. Lily is also the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award.

Lily's latest novel, Euphoria, was released in June 2014. It won the Kirkus Award for Fiction 2014, the New England Book Award for Fiction 2014 and is a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards (to be announced March 12, 2015). Euphoria was mentioned in The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014, TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014 and the Amazon Best Books of 2014. http://www.lilykingbooks.com/