Lydia Millet (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel A Children's Bible, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Salon wrote of Millet's work, "The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." Source: Wikipedia (en)