Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's...

This Strange Eventful History is a historical fiction novel by Claire Messud. It was published on May 14, 2024 to critical acclaim. The book is a family...

six (Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Hisham Matar, Claire Messud, Richard Powers) had been nominated previously. The longlist also featured...

The Emperor's Children is a 2006 novel by the American author Claire Messud. It is the author's third novel—and her first best-seller. It was longlisted...

21st-century monsters" (Kirkus)". In a review for the New York Times, Claire Messud describes Miller's Circe as "pleasurable," approving of its feminist...

he is a member of its editorial board. He and his wife, the novelist Claire Messud, are on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based...

political commentator and strategist Marty McInnis '88, hockey player Claire Messud, author Lisa Miller, professor of spirituality in psychology Peter B...

translation) The book has received high praise, including the following: Claire Messud, for The New York Times Book Review, Feb. 6, 2015: "I've been haunted...

Flynn’s Gone Girl where the characters are vicious but also sympathetic. Claire Messud noted a "bracing nastiness" in the book as more and more secrets are...

to him as "the pick of the litter", and in Harper's Magazine, author Claire Messud described him as "hold[ing] the novel’s roiling, slow ground bass"....

compassion, wisdom and insight." In a review with the New York Times, author Claire Messud praised the book's "beautifully too-human characters" and also drew...

The Woman Upstairs is a novel by Claire Messud that was published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the novel is told from...

mainstream literary critics. In a rave review for Harper's Magazine, Claire Messud called Galgut an "extraordinary" novelist, writing, "Like other remarkable...

and a longing for their lost homeland in Algeria. The American author Claire Messud remembered seeing her pied-noir father, a lapsed Catholic, crying while...

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Macpherson, OC, political theorist Jack McClelland, CC, publisher Claire Messud, novelist Lydia Millet, author Mavor Moore, CC, OBC, writer, producer...

Times asked several prominent authors to name their favorite Roth book. Claire Messud picked Sabbath's Theater, writing: "The novel, outrageous when it was...

novelist Claire Messud felt the novel's plot and themes were too familiar to Powers' earlier works, and criticized the characterization. Messud writes,...

matter-of-fact descriptions with existential angst" to "Albert Camus." Claire Messud of Harper's Magazine similarly discussed the Au's writing style and...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud and the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. The Home...

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Year Jury Author Book Result Ref. 2010 Michael Enright Claire Messud Ali Smith Johanna Skibsrud The Sentimentalists Winner David Bergen The Matter with...

Bowen (2006) Nightlife – Rob Thurman (2006) The Emperor's Children – Claire Messud (2006) Mask Market – Andrew Vachss (2006) The Plot to Save Socrates...

1976), academic, writer on foreign affairs, and public intellectual Claire Messud (B.A. 1987), author of The Emperor's Children Shannon K. O'Neil (B.A...

writer much like Szabó herself, and the other her cryptic housekeeper. Claire Messud writes in the New York Times that reading The Door, has completely changed...

Sands' identity are in an interview she gave to Claire Messud for Guernica magazine. According to Messud, who met Sands in person in Berlin in May 2011...

Khaled Mattawa, poet, recipient of an Academy of American Poets award Claire Messud, author, Algerian Naomi Shihab Nye, poet Abraham Rihbany, writer on...

SENSES". Kirkus Reviews, Sept. 1st, 1995. Ghost Story, book review by Claire Messud in The New York Times Salon interview with Amy Tan at the time of publication...

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