Biography of X
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Biography of X (2023) is a novel by Catherine Lacey set in an alternate twentieth-century America, written as a biography by a widow of her late wife, an artist known only as X. After X's death, her wife, the journalist CM, sets out to correct a false biography and to discover the truth about X's origins. She traces X's many invented identities and collaborations with musicians and writers, and learns how little she knew about the woman she loved.