Conversations with Authors – Claire Messud (Virtual Event)

Claire Messud‘s latest release, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, opens a window on her own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.

Claire is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of six works of fiction including The Burning Girl, The Emperor’s Children, and The Woman Upstairs. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

Sheila Heti is the author of eight books of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Motherhood; chosen by the book critics at the New York Times as one of their top books of 2018, and by New York magazine as the best book of the year; How Should a Person Be?, named one of the 12 “New Classics of the 21st Century” by Vulture, as well as a New York Times Notable Book, a best book of the year in The New Yorker, and cited by Time as “one of the most talked-about books of the year”; and Ticknor; as well as the story collection, The Middle Stories. She was named one of “The New Vanguard” by the New York Times; a list of fifteen women writers from around the world who are “shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Her books have been translated into twenty-two languages.