Claire Messud Biography

Claire Messud was educated at Cambridge and Yale. Her first novel, "When the World Was Steady," and her most recent book, "The Hunters," were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, "The Last Life," was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor's Choice at The Village Voice. All three of her books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship, and is the current recipient of the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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