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Lydia Millet


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Lydia Millet is the author of several novels including the gloriously titled George Bush: Dark Prince of Love, and My Happy Life, winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. During the early 1990's she was a sub-editor at magazines such as Hustler, Busty Beauties and S.W.A.T. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and daughter.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
April 2025

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Atavists: Stories
 
Series
How the Dead Dream
   1. How the Dead Dream (2007)
   2. Ghost Lights (2011)
   3. Magnificence (2012)
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Novels
   Omnivores (1996)
   George Bush (1999)
   My Happy Life (2002)
   Everyone's Pretty (2005)
   Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005)
   Pills and Starships (2014)
   Mermaids in Paradise (2014)
   Sweet Lamb of Heaven (2016)
   A Children's Bible (2020)
   Dinosaurs (2022)
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Collections
   Love in Infant Monkeys (2009)
   I'm with the Bears (2011) (with others)
   Fight No More (2018)
   Atavists: Stories (2025)
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Books containing stories by Lydia Millet
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (2010)
(New Fairy Tales , book 1)
edited by
Kate Bernheimer
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (1998)
Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
edited by
Kate Bernheimer

Award nominations
2020 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : A Children's Bible
2020 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : A Children's Bible
2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Sweet Lamb of Heaven
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Magnificence
2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Magnificence
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Love in Infant Monkeys
2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Oh Pure and Radiant Heart


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