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About Claire Messud
American novelist and professor of literature and creative writing
Claire Messud is an American novelist and professor of literature and creative writing. She is best known for her novel The Emperor's Children, published in 2006. Messud’s work is associated above all with fiction, and her reputation rests largely on The Emperor's Children, which brought wide attention to her writing. As a professor, she also teaches literature and creative writing, connecting her work as an author with an academic career.
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More Teaching quotes
- “I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house,…”Debi Mazar
- “By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that…”Elizabeth Gaskell
- “I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age:…”Brendan Myers
Writing: more sayings
- “I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed…”Paul Dini
- “Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline…”Shannon L. Alder
- “Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried…”Simone Elkeles
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Books by Claire Messud
The Emperor's Children
2006
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
2020
The woman upstairs
2013
Woman Upstairs
2014