Lauren Belfer

Lauren Belfer
Occupation	Novelist
Education	Buffalo Seminary, Swarthmore College, Columbia University
Genre	Historical Fiction
Notable works	City Of Light, "A Fierce Radiance", "And After The Fire"
Website
[www.laurenbelfer.com]

Buffalo Seminary, Swarthmore College,

Lauren Belfer is an American author of three novels, City Of Light, A Fierce Radiance, and And After The Fire.

She is from Buffalo, New York, where she attended the Buffalo Seminary. The school would later serve as basis for the girls school depicted in her debut novel, City Of Light, about Buffalo, NY during the Pan-American Exposition.

At Swarthmore College, she majored in Medieval Studies. After graduating, she worked as a file clerk at an art gallery, a paralegal, an assistant photo editor at a newspaper, a fact checker at magazines, and as a researcher and associate producer on documentary films. She has an M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Her debut novel, City Of Light, was a New York Times bestseller, as well as a number one Book Sense pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Award nominee, a New York Times Notable Book, a Library Journal Best Book, a Main Selection of the Book-Of-The-Month Club, a bestseller in Great Britain, has been translated into seven languages, and was adapted into a stage play by Anthony Clarvoe.

Her second novel, A Fierce Radiance, a historical thriller that follows the development of penicillin during World War II in New York City, was published by HarperCollins in June, 2010. It was named one of the best novels of 2010 by The Washington Post and one of the year's five best mysteries by NPR. The paperback edition was released March, 2011.

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