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Claire Messud
Messud at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Messud at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, teacher
NationalityAmerican
SpouseJames Wood
Website
www.clairemessud.com

Claire Messud (born 1966) is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).

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List of Milton Academy alumni

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political commentator and strategist Marty McInnis '88, hockey player Claire Messud, author Lisa Miller, professor of spirituality in psychology Peter B...

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Macpherson, OC, political theorist Jack McClelland, CC, publisher Claire Messud, novelist Lydia Millet, author Mavor Moore, CC, OBC, writer, producer...

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The Late Americans

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to him as "the pick of the litter", and in Harper's Magazine, author Claire Messud described him as "hold[ing] the novel’s roiling, slow ground bass"....

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

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compassion, wisdom and insight." In a review with the New York Times, author Claire Messud praised the book's "beautifully too-human characters" and also drew...

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Bewilderment

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novelist Claire Messud felt the novel's plot and themes were too familiar to Powers' earlier works, and criticized the characterization. Messud writes,...

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Cold Enough for Snow

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matter-of-fact descriptions with existential angst" to "Albert Camus." Claire Messud of Harper's Magazine similarly discussed the Au's writing style and...

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List of books set in New York City

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Bowen (2006) Nightlife – Rob Thurman (2006) The Emperor's Children – Claire Messud (2006) Mask Market – Andrew Vachss (2006) The Plot to Save Socrates...

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Narration

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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud and the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin. The Home...

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Giller Prize

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Year Jury Author Book Result Ref. 2010 Michael Enright Claire Messud Ali Smith Johanna Skibsrud The Sentimentalists Winner David Bergen The Matter with...

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List of Yale University people

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1976), academic, writer on foreign affairs, and public intellectual Claire Messud (B.A. 1987), author of The Emperor's Children Shannon K. O'Neil (B.A...

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List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker Prize

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Bridge Chatto & Windus Jon McGregor So Many Ways to Begin Bloomsbury Claire Messud The Emperor’s Children Picador David Mitchell Black Swan Green Sceptre...

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List of American novelists

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Mind Barbara Mertz (1927–2013), Crocodile on the Sandbank Lynn Messina Claire Messud (born 1966), When the World Was Steady Grace Metalious (1924–1964),...

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List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks

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Center and Joyce for the airport. The Emperor's Children (2006), by Claire Messud. The novel traces the lives of three NYC friends before and after the...

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List of Arab Americans

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Benghazi-born Libyan, poet, recipient of an Academy of American Poets award Claire Messud, half-Algerian, author Naomi Shihab Nye, half-Palestinian, poet Abraham...

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Commonwealth School

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Sorensen, literature critic James Wood, author Claire Messud, Michael Kelly of the Atlantic, Harvard Law professors Charles Fried...

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The Hundred Secret Senses

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SENSES". Kirkus Reviews, Sept. 1st, 1995. Ghost Story, book review by Claire Messud in The New York Times Salon interview with Amy Tan at the time of publication...

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

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Margaret Atwood  Canada Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (US) A. B. Yehoshua  Israel Claire Messud (US) Athol Fugard  South Africa Pireeni Sundaralingam (France) E. L...

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