A.M. Homes in conversation with M.G. Lord (Theater 1)

Winner of the prestigious Orange/Women’s Prize for Fiction, A.M. Homes discusses her new novel The Unfolding.

A.M. Homes is the author of 13 books of fiction, short-story, and non-fiction, including most recently a novel: The Unfolding. Homes' 2013 novel, May We Be Forgiven, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her memoir, The Mistress's Daughter was published to international acclaim. Her work has been translated into 22 languages. In addition to writing books, Homes is also active in television and film and serves on the Council of the Writers Guild of America East. She was Co-Executive Producer of David E. Kelly’s/Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes and Falling Water on USA and a Writer/Producer on the original L Word and has written for all the major networks and streamers. Currently, A.M. Homes is Professor of The Practice in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

M.G. Lord is the co-host of the podcast L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes, which tells the story of the doll’s creation in the voices of its original creators.

She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness And We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice. Her 2005 family memoir, Astro Turf, is a cultural history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as the basis for L.A. Made: Blood, Sweat and Rockets, a 12-part podcast that she hosts. It tells the story of the early days of rocketry in Southern California, and the unusual figures—a practitioner of “Sex Magick” and an accused Communist—who founded JPL.

Lord is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at the University of Southern California.


 

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