Lauren Groff, Bestselling Novelist of Upstate New York-- Reading

Lauren Groff’s first novel was the surprise bestseller, The Monsters of Templeton (2008), the story of an archaeology student who digs up dark secrets in Templeton, a stand-in for her hometown of Cooperstown, NY. Her new novel is Arcadia (2012), about an upstate New York Utopian community that falls apart. Novelist Richard Russo said, “Arcadia is one of the most moving and satisfying novels I’ve read in a long time. It is not possible to write any better without showing off.”