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    Claire Messud

    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 teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Claire Messud

    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 teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Awards

    Shortlisted — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2017

    Longlisted — Booker Prize, 2024

    Longlisted — Giller Prize, 2024

    Shortlisted — American Library in Paris Book Award, 2024

    Books by Claire Messud

    • Quartet: A Novel

      Jean Rhys, Claire Messud

      Paperback, 2020

      “[Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of...

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