Claire Messud - Books

Claire Messud is an American novelist and literature and creative writing professor. She is best known as the author of the novel The Emperor's Children (2006).

The Woman Upstairs

2024

The novel centers on Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachuset

The Emperor's Children

2024

This novel follows the lives of three friends in their thirties living in New York City in

This Strange Eventful History

2024

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of o