CLAIRE MESSUD
Visiting Writer, 2000-2002

Claire Messud, a visiting writer at Amherst College, is the author of two novels, The Last Life and When the World Was Steady, a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award.

She has published short fiction in Granta and in Zoetrope/All Story. She has written articles and reviews for such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the London Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

Claire Messud has taught in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, in the Grauduate Writing Program at Johns Hopkins, and comes to Amherst after a spring as a writer-in-residence at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.