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Claire Messud

Claire Messud
Claire Messud is the author of novels The Emperor's Children, The Woman Upstairs, and more. Her new novel, The Burning Girl, is available from W.W. Norton. She writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College, CUNY. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her family.


Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

The Author of Kant's Little Prussian Head Recommends Five Essential Collections
October 13, 2020  By Claire Messud
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Letters of War, and the End of Youth

Claire Messud on Her Family's WWII Correspondence
May 22, 2020  By Claire Messud
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Claire Messud: What I Learned From My Mother’s Library

The Author of The Burning Girl on the Women Writers She Grew Up With
August 24, 2017  By Claire Messud
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I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

Claire Messud Reflects on Life with Four-Footed Family Members
December 14, 2016  By Claire Messud
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Claire Messud: Why I Write

Kant’s Little East Prussian Head, Among Other Reasons…
August 12, 2015  By Claire Messud
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