Lily King in Conversation with Editor Elisabeth Schmitz

Elisabeth Schmitz is Vice President, Editorial Director of Grove Atlantic. Since joining the company in 1995, she has edited books by Lily King, Sherman Alexie, Charles Frazier, Leif Enger, Jeanette Winterson, Tom Drury, Bob Shacochis, David Vann, and Rabih Alameddine, among others.

Lily King is the award-winning author of four novels including The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, and Father of the Rain. King received her B.A. in English Literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and Creative Writing at several universities and high schools in the United States and abroad. Euphoria (Grove Press) is Lily King’s nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the ‘30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Emily Eakin of the New York Times called Euphoria, "a taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires in a landscape of exotic menace."