Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by Time (#1), Vulture, and Publishers Weekly, and one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, Lit Hub, and Amazon. National Bestseller. Winner of the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
"A major novel, and a notably audacious one." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"It feels fairly rare for a novel to be hugely intelligent and moving and fun in equal measure, but with Biography of X, Catherine Lacey somehow-magically-makes the nearly impossible look easy." -Lauren Groff
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, time
