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Claire Messud

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Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers The Emperor’s Children and The Burning Girl, and a book of essays, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Claire Messud Books

This Strange Eventful History book cover

This Strange Eventful History

Claire Messud
The Last Life book cover

The Last Life

Claire Messud
The Hunters book cover

The Hunters

Claire Messud
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write book cover

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

Claire Messud
Eat Joy book cover

Eat Joy

Natalie Eve Garrett
Girl Talk book cover

Girl Talk

Jacqueline Mroz
When the World Was Steady book cover

When the World Was Steady

Claire Messud
The Burning Girl book cover

The Burning Girl

Claire Messud
When Memory Comes book cover

When Memory Comes

Saul Friedländer
The Use of Man book cover

The Use of Man

Aleksandar Tisma
The Woman Upstairs book cover

The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud
Death Comes for the Archbishop book cover

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair book cover

David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair

Irene Nemirovsky
The Emperor's Children book cover

The Emperor's Children

Claire Messud
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