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Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children, was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

When the World Was Steady

The Last Life

The Hunters

The Hunters

Short story collection

The Professor's History

The Emperor's Children

The Woman Upstairs

The Burning Girl

A Dream Life

A Dream Life

Novella

This Strange Eventful History

Standalone Non-fiction

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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