The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History' spoke with PEOPLE at the Texas Book Festival about her thoughts on success and who she'd want to portray her characters Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books ...

Claire Messud is, for me, the epitome of a thriving working writer in America, her success evidence of a literary world, a system that often does not reward the most deserving of artists, for once ...

Drawn from life: Claire Messud's notebook (left), and the handwritten memoir by her grandfather which inspired her new novel Claire Messud’s fourth novel, The Woman Upstairs (2013), was notable for ...

"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's novel "This Strange Eventful History" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Lucia Wood; book cover courtesy W. W. Norton) In the prologue to “This Strange Eventful History,” Claire Messud ...

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 ...

The author of ‘This Strange Eventful History' spoke with PEOPLE at the Texas Book Festival about her thoughts on success and who she'd want to portray her characters Franco Origlia/Getty Claire Messud ...