BIOGRAPHY OF X is a novel disguised as a biography.

Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers, as well as the story collection Certain American States. She is the winner of a Whiting Award, a NYFA Artist Fellowship, and was named one of Granta Magazine’s Best American Novelists in 2017. Her third novel, Pew, is forthcoming in 2020. She was born in Mississippi and lives in Chicago.