Editing Lydia Millet (section)

{{Short description|American novelist (born 1968)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name          = Lydia Millet
| image         = Lydia Millet 2016.jpg
| caption       = Millet at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1968|12|5|mf=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| education     = {{ubl|[[University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[Duke University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])}}
| occupation    = Writer
| genre         = {{ubl|[[American fiction]] | [[Ecofiction|Environmental fiction]]}}
| notable_works = {{ubl|[[A Children's Bible]] (2020) | Magnificence: A Novel (2012) | Love in Infant Monkeys (2009) | My Happy Life (2002)}}
| awards        = {{ubl|[[PEN Center USA|Pen Center USA Award]] | [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation  Fellowship]] | [[American Academy of Arts and Letters|American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award]]}}
| website       = {{URL|https://lydiamillet.net}}
}}
'''Lydia Millet''' (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel ''[[A Children's Bible]]'' was a finalist for the [[National Book Award for Fiction]] and named one of the ten best books of the year by the ''New York Times Book Review''.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review/best-books.html | title = The 10 Best Books of 2020 | work = New York Times | date = November 23, 2020}}</ref> She has been a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize]] and the [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]]. ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' wrote of Millet's work, "The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.salon.com/2008/02/04/millet_2/ | title = The man who loved money: Witness the sentimental education of an Information Age Everyman–and his salvation–in Lydia Millet's beautiful new novel | work = [[Salon.com]] | first = Laura | last = Miller | date = February 4, 2008}}</ref>