Lauren Elkin (born 1978) is a French and American writer, essayist and translator.
She is known for her book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art[1][2] and Flâneuse, which was among the list of notable books by The New York Times Book Review and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
[3] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Le Monde, and Frieze.
She was the English translator of Simone de Beauvoir's The Inseparables.
[4][5][6][7] Her debut novel, Scaffolding, was published in June 2024 in the U.K.[8] and September 2024 in the U.S. [9] A native New Yorker, Elkin lived in Paris, France for 20 years and is now based in London.