Claire Messud
Claire Messud (born 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) is an American writer.
Life
Messud is from a Canadian- French family, the mother is Canadian, the father Frenchman of Algerian origin; she grew up in the U.S., Canada and Australia, went to Milton Academy in Massachusetts and then studied at Yale and Cambridge, where she met her husband.
Claire Messud published her first novel in 1995 and had the city 's novel The Emperor's Children a worldwide success. She taught at several American colleges and is married to the British literary critic James Wood; the couple has two children and lives in Washington and in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Works
→ And in between the sea, German by Christiane Filius - Jehne; Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Petrovich, 2001 ISBN 3-462-02976-2.
- 2001 The Hunters (contains two short novels A Simple Tale and The Hunter )
→ Family hunters, dt of Dora Winkler; Munich: German publishing house 2004, ISBN 3-421-05681-1.
- 2006 The Emperor's Children ( Novel)
→ The Emperor's Children, German by Sabine Hübner; Munich: German Publishing Company, 2007 ISBN 3-421-04204-7.