Komis x biography books

novel by Catherine Lacey

Biography of X is a alternative history novel by American writer Catherine Lacey published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The novel purports to be a biography of the musician and artist X, written by her widow, C.M. Lucca, as a response to an unauthorized and apparently inaccurate biography of her wife written after her death. The novel takes place in an alternate timeline in which the Southern states of the United States seceded in after building a wall segregating them from the rest of the country.

Writing and publication

Lacey initially wanted to write a biography of a living person, but was encouraged not to do so by one of her teachers.^[1] Lacey ceased working on the biography, and instead decided to work on a fictional biography.^[1] The book includes fictional cita