SOLD OUT - The Innovation Lecture: Lauren Groff

SOLD OUT - Please email michael@mercantilelibrary.com to be added to the waitlist.

New York Times Bestselling Novelist & Lynx Bookstore Owner Lauren Groff delivers the 2025 Innovation Lecture.

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York
Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and
Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

In 2024, Lauren Groff She was named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME and opened a bookstore, The Lynx, in Gainesville, Florida.

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free to members/$25 nonmembers
Registration required.

Copies of Lauren’s books will be available for sale & signing courtesy of Joseph-Beth Cincinnati.

Please pre-order the book here - https://www.josephbeth.com/event/mercantile-library-event-%E2%80%93-innovation-lauren-groff