Lauren Belfer is an American author of four novels: City of Light, A Fierce Radiance, And After the Fire and Ashton Hall, which was published in June 2022.
from Columbia University, and 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 at CBS News and on documentary films.
[citation needed] She is married to noted musicologist Michael Marissen and lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Her second novel, A Fierce Radiance, is a historical thriller that follows the development of penicillin during World War II in New York City.
[2] In January 2017, Belfer and Marissen were interviewed by Michael Enright for the CBC radio program "Sunday Edition.