Claire Messud

Claire Messud is one of the highly respected authors from America, who has written several popular novels based on the literature and fiction genres. She is also a well known creative and literature writing professor. Author Claire is particularly famous for the success of her standalone novel titled ‘The Emperor’s Children’. Claire was born in the year 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. She spent her growing up years in a number of places including Australia, United States, Canada, etc., before finally coming back to the United States during her teenage years. The mother of Claire is of the Canadian origin, while her father belongs to the ethnic French race, hailing from French Algeria. She received her primary education at the Toronto University Schools and at the Militon Academy. Later, author Claire went on to obtain her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Cambridge University and the Yale University. It was while studying at the Cambridge University that she met her husband named James Wood. After her graduation, author Claire briefly attended the Syracuse University for an MFA program. Claire began her writing career in the year 1995 with the release her debut book titled ‘When The World Was Steady’. This novel went on to be nominated for the Faulkner/PEN Award. After the success of this novel, author Claire was able to complete and publish her second novel in the year 1999. It was titled as The Last Life and depicted the story of 3 generations of family of the French-Algerian community. In 2001, she published two novellas.