About Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, and several other major awards in the years before that. She is best known for her work of autotheory, The Argonauts (2015).
![“44. [...] later that afternoon, a therapist will say to me, "If he hadn’t lied to you, he would have been a different person than he is." She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was…” quote by Maggie Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/79b/maggie-nelson-4294_bad-man_44-later-that-afternoon-a-therapist-will_1846061.jpg)
