Claire Messud, the bestselling author of "The Emperor's Children," returns with "This Strange Eventful History" (W.W. Norton), a multi-generational story of family secrets spanning World War II to the ...
Yahoo: Claire Messud on the Real Family Stories that Inspired 'This Strange Eventful History'
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Before she could write her new work of fiction, This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud had to wait ...
Claire Messud on the Real Family Stories that Inspired 'This Strange Eventful History'
Bestselling author Claire Messud will appear at Interabang Books on Nov. 17 to discuss her new book, "This Strange Eventful History," in a conversation with store co-owner Lori Feathers. Lucian Wood ...
The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History’ and ‘The Emperor’s Children’ guides us through her personal library CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The home library that novelist Claire Messud was about to show me, ...
Claire Messud, author of several award-winning novels, including ”The Last Life” and ”This Strange, Eventful History,” spoke as part of a panel with other writers at the Blackburn Literary Festival ...
MSN: This Strange Eventful History: Claire Messud's Ambitious Novel Spanning Generations and Continents
This Strange Eventful History: Claire Messud's Ambitious Novel Spanning Generations and Continents
Claire Messud opens “This Strange Eventful History” with a prologue that announces, “I want to save lives. Or simply: I want to save life.” That may sound pretentious — she’s just a writer, after all ...
KPBS: Claire Messud's sweeping novel borrows from her own 'Strange Eventful History'
Claire Messud's new novel, This Strange Eventful History, is a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story that, paradoxically, sticks close to home. Messud drew her novel from a handwritten memoir of over ...