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Lauren Wilkinson (born July 19, 1984) is an American fiction writer. Her debut novel American Spy was published by Random House in February 2019 in the US and in July 2019 in the UK via Dialogue Books (Little, Brown ). It is scheduled for a 2020 release in Italy via Frassinelli Books (Mondadori).
American Spy received praise ahead of its release and was a Spring 2019 Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” pick and was also included by the Huffington post in its "61 Books We're looking forward to Reading in 2019"The New York Times also selected American Spy for its "100 Notable Books of 2019."
Wilkinson has taught writing at Columbia University and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was a 2013 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer's Fellow, and has received support from both the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her fiction and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Granta, The Believer, and The Millions, among other publications. In August 2019 Barack Obama included "American Spy" on his Summer Reading list . Wilkinson grew up in New York City and lives on the Lower East Side.