Catherine Lacey Non-Fiction#
| Title |
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| The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence |
2017 |
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Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence |
2017 |
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Short Story Collections#
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| Certain American States: Stories |
2018 |
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Standalone Novels#
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| Nobody Is Ever Missing |
2014 |
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| The Answers |
2017 |
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| Pew |
2020 |
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| Biography of X |
2023 |
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| The Möbius Book |
2025 |
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Catherine Lacey is an American author whose novels have earned praise for their originality and emotional precision. Her debut, “Nobody Is Ever Missing” (2014), follows a woman who abruptly leaves her life in New York to travel to New Zealand, and established Lacey as a writer willing to take risks with form and subject matter. She followed it with “The Answers” (2017), which imagines a near-future experiment in relationships, and “Pew” (2020), narrated by a character of indeterminate age, gender, and race found sleeping in a church pew.
Her 2023 novel “Biography of X” was widely regarded as her most ambitious work, an alternate-history novel structured as a biography of a mysterious artist. Lacey has also published the short story collection “Certain American States” (2018) and “The Art of the Affair” (2017), a nonfiction illustrated history of artistic relationships. Her writing resists easy categorization, blending realism with speculative elements and bringing a sharp intelligence to questions about how people know themselves and each other.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Catherine Lacey written?
Catherine Lacey has written eight books across four series.
What was Catherine Lacey's first book?
Catherine Lacey’s first book is Nobody Is Ever Missing, published in 2014.
What themes does Catherine Lacey explore in her novels?
Lacey’s novels frequently explore identity, relationships, and the nature of selfhood. Her work often features narrators grappling with personal loss or searching for meaning, and she uses unconventional narrative structures to examine how people construct their own stories.