Claire Messud

Sandra Singer (University of Guelph)

Ed. by Kerry Myler, Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 1966
Activity 1994-ongoing

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Essayist
Novelist
Teacher/ Professor

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I had been careful not to think of my lost love and my failed life, had been willfully repressing the cloud of my terrible aloneness; and so had been left in the same state as a boat becalmed in fog: unseeing, umoving, unmoored. —Messud, “The Hunters” (The Hunters 2001, 140)

Claire Messud (born 1966) is a fiction writer, essayist, and university teacher. American by birth, her mother is Canadian and her father ethnic French of Algerian descent. Married to writer James Wood, she is mother of their two children, Livia and Lucian. Educated at Yale University and the University of Cambridge, currently she teaches at Harvard University in the Department of English.

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Citation: Singer, Sandra. "Claire Messud". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 September 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13888, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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