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Claire Messud

Author of The Emperor's Children

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Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family. — biography from Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays… (more)
The Emperor's Children 3,468 copies, 104 reviews
The Woman Upstairs 1,596 copies, 118 reviews
The Burning Girl 535 copies, 34 reviews
The Last Life 524 copies, 7 reviews
When the World Was Steady 210 copies, 4 reviews
The Hunters 208 copies, 5 reviews
A Dream Life 36 copies
A Simple Tale 5 copies
Atonement (Introduction, some editions) 25,508 copies, 610 reviews
Two Serious Ladies (Introduction, some editions) 768 copies, 10 reviews
Le Bal (Introduction, some editions) 615 copies, 32 reviews
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Contributor) 369 copies, 15 reviews
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 291 copies, 4 reviews
Granta 66: Truth and Lies (Contributor) 160 copies, 1 review
The Use of Man (Introduction, some editions) 144 copies, 1 review
Granta 51: Big Men (Contributor) 116 copies, 1 review
Granta 118: Exit Strategies (Contributor) 81 copies, 2 reviews
Writers on writing (Contributor) 28 copies
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