Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist. She is best-known as the author of the 2006 novel The Emperor's Children.
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Messud grew up in the United States, Australia and Canada, returning to the United States as a teenager. Messud's mother is Canadian, her father of French origin (from formerly-French Algeria). The writer was educated at Milton Academy, Yale University, and Cambridge, where she met her spouse...
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Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist. She is best-known as the author of the 2006 novel The Emperor's Children.
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Messud grew up in the United States, Australia and Canada, returning to the United States as a teenager. Messud's mother is Canadian, her father of French origin (from formerly-French Algeria). The writer was educated at Milton Academy, Yale University, and Cambridge, where she met her spouse, the British critic James Wood. Messud also briefly attended the MFA program at Syracuse University.
Her debut novel, When The World Was Steady (1995), was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999, she published her second book, The Last Life, about three generations of a French-Algerian family. Her 2001 work, The Hunters, consists of two novellas. Her most recent novel, The Emperor’s Children, was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. She wrote the novel while a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2004-2005.
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