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Claire Messud is the 24th Zale Writer-in-Residence

8-14 March 2009

Department: Zale Writers-in-Residence

Charlotte D'Ooge

Posted August 27, 2008

Newcomb College Center for Research on Women presented Claire Messud as the 24th Zale Writer-in-Residence.

Claire Messud was born in the United States in 1966 to a French father and a Canadian mother, and was raised in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada, before returning to the States in 1980.

Educated at Yale and Cambridge universities, she lived in London until 1995, where she was Deputy Editor of the Guardian newspaper’s Women’s Page. Claire has taught at various colleges and universities, including Amherst College and Kenyon College, and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.

She has written reviews and articles for numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Nation, Daily Telegraph (London), London Times, TLS and others. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were 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 books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her most recent novel, The Emperor’s Children, was on several best books of the year lists, including the Los Angeles Times, Economist, Chicago Tribune, and People magazine, and was named one of the “10 Best Books of the Year” for 2006 by the New York Times Book Review.

She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

The public is invited to participate in all events listed below. There is no charge for admission. For questions please contact Charlotte D'Ooge at cdooge@tulane.edu or (504) 314-2721.

A READING WITH CLAIRE MESSUD
7:30 pm, Monday 9 March 2009
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, Lavin-Bernick Center
Reception to follow in the Lavin-Bernick Ballroom

A PUBLIC INTERVIEW WITH CLAIRE MESSUD
6:00 pm, Thursday 12 March 2009
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
The interview will be conducted by Assistant Professor Paula Morris of the Tulane Department of English Creative Writing Program

"NO SPONTANEOUS ACT OF DESPERATION: TRAGIC COMEDY IN THOMAS BERNHARD'S THE LOSER"
1:00pm, Friday 13 March 2009
Newcomb College Institute
Part of Newcomb Student Programs "Fridays at Newcomb" series

Coordinated through the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, and facilitated by a committee composed of Newcomb-Tulane College students, faculty, and Newcomb staff, the Zale Writer-in-Residence program was established by Dana Zale Gerard, Newcomb College 1985, and made possible by an annual gift from the M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation of Dallas, Texas. Since 2006, the Program has been generously supported by Barnes & Noble College Booksellers.