I love chivalric romances and I love that period. I studied French and English in college and for a while I thought I wanted to be a medievalist. What made you want to write about Marie de France?
Groff now lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband, Clay Kallman, and two children. Her latest novel, Matrix, is an inventive tale of 12th-century nunnery focusing on Marie de France, considered the first woman to write poetry (known as “lais”) in French. In 2018, she produced her first short story collection, Florida. Her second novel, Arcadia (2012), explored the failure of utopian communities in the 1970s, and her third, Fates and Furies, about an unconventional marriage, was picked by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015. L auren Groff, 43, grew up in Cooperstown, New York, a place she fictionalised as a picture-perfect town in her bestselling debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008).
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