Claire Messud

Claire Messud was educated at Cambridge and Yale. Her novels When the World Was Steady and The Hunters were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent novel, The Emperor's Children, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.