Lauren Elkin


Lauren Elkin is a French and American writer, essayist and translator. She is known for her book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse, which was among the list of notable books by The New York Times Book Review and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Le Monde, and Frieze. She was the English translator of Simone de Beauvoir's The Inseparables. She previously lectured at the University of Liverpool's Department of English.
Her debut novel, Scaffolding, was published in June 2024 in the U.K. and September 2024 in the U.S. It was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and was the runner-up for the McKitterick Prize.
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Early and personal life

A native New Yorker, Elkin lived in Paris, France for 20 years and is now based in London. Elkin is Jewish.

Works

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City   2016/2017. No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus   2021.
  • Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art   2023.Scaffolding 2024.