Lily King is an American novelist known for emotionally precise fiction about love, family, ambition, and the inner lives of artists. Before Heart the Lover she published the novels The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, Father of the Rain, Euphoria, and Writers & Lovers, along with the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her breakout, Euphoria—a novel loosely inspired by the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead—won wide acclaim and major awards, and Writers & Lovers cemented her reputation for portraits of young women trying to live a creative life under financial and emotional pressure. King’s recurring subjects—the formation of a writer, the collision of art and money, the way early loves shape an entire adulthood—run directly into the heart of this novel, whose unnamed-until-the-end narrator is herself a novelist looking back on the relationships that made her.
Five Tuesdays in Winter is author Lily King's collection of short stories first published in late 2021. Although each story in Five Tuesdays in Winter is somewhat thematically connected, they tell different stories. One story, for instance, tells...
Heart the Lover is a novel published in 2025 by the American writer Lily King. The novel is both a retrospective love story and a künstlerroman, the portrait of an artist’s coming-of-age. It blends the campus or college novel (its first movement...
