#  Claire Messud 

Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction

 

 

 



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 location\_on She/her/hersOffice: Lamont Library 408 

 smartphone [617-384-9395](tel:617-384-9395) 

 email <messud@fas.harvard.edu> 

By appointment

 

 



 

Education: B.A., Yale University (1987)  
M.A., University of Cambridge (1989)

Interests: Fiction writing

Selected Works:  
Kant's Little Prussian Head &amp; Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays (W.W. Norton, 2020); The Burning Girl (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013); The Emperor’s Children (Knopf, 2006); The Hunters (Harcourt, 2001); The Last Life (Harcourt, 1999); When The World Was Steady (Granta Books, 1995).