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Lauren Grodstein

Influences:

Lauren Grodstein states in an interview that her literary interest stems from her childhood skills at lying. This is not, in a traditional sense, negative instances of lying but rather her ability to manipulate life experiences into situations that she believes are interesting. Grodstein's literary skills, according to her, were expanded on by her childhood hobby of communicating with her grandmother via traditional letters with pen and stamp. Lauren believes that although this helped facilitate her skills, she had always had a natural interest and skills in the literary arts as a storyteller and a writer. In her latest novel A Friend of the Family, a controversy of the novel is neonaticide, a topic which was revealed to have been prevalent during Lauren's high school enrollment life. Grodstein states that although she does not wish to influence the reader toward any stance, she would like the reader to "take another look" at the matter.

Due to her early life in New Jersey, Lauren often sets her stories in the New Jersey state, claiming that her home state had always been close to her life and easily fills in the role of settings of her books. With the release of her novel Reproduction is the Flaw of Love, Lauren expanded on her preferences as a writer, stating that most of her male protagonists are both a way to avoid "mary sue"-ism, and because these types of characters are easy to write for her.