Claire Messud is, for me, the epitome of a thriving working writer in America, her success evidence of a literary world, a system that often does not reward the most deserving of artists, for once ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Before she could write her new work of fiction, This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud had to wait ...

Drawn from life: Claire Messud's notebook (left), and the handwritten memoir by her grandfather which inspired her new novel Claire Messud’s fourth novel, The Woman Upstairs (2013), was notable for ...

Claire Messud believes in art. “From Homer onward, stories have held up a mirror and taught us who we are and what we believe,” she writes in the impassioned introduction to “Kant’s Little Prussian ...

Claire Messud's new novel, This Strange Eventful History, is a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story that, paradoxically, sticks close to home. Messud drew her novel from a handwritten memoir of over ...

Our columnist picks the year’s outstanding books. By Alida Becker There are six American novels in the running for the prestigious British literary award, but only two by U.K. authors. By Alex ...