Why Sigrid Nunez Is One of Our Best Writers

Sigrid Nunez is a baby boomer who seems younger, because idiomatic speech always sounds young. She’s been publishing fiction between hard covers since 1995, when she was in her mid-40s, but found the wider audience she deserved in 2018. That’s when her seventh novel, “The Friend,” about a novelist who adopts her mentor’s Great Dane, won the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a movie with Naomi Watts and Bill Murray.