![]() They began a friendship which lead directly to the book. Groff said she saw George Cukor’s The Women on a plane, started thinking about The Bechdel Test, and the very next day, saw a lecture by Katie Bugyis, author of The Care of Nuns. ![]() The novel was inspired, mainly, by three historical women: Marie de France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Hildegard of Bingen. “You just keep synthesizing and eventually you come up with something.” “My art is an art of synthesis,” she says, noting that should be of inspiration to other writers. A centrifugal lecture that both explains how the work came to be and spins you out to its inspirations like footnotes. It’s one of the best talks I’ve heard from a fiction writer. I liked Lauren Groff’s novel Matrix so much I wanted to know more about it, and luckily, right after I finished it, a lecture she gave at Notre Dame was posted online. ![]()
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