Claire Messud is theNew York Times-bestselling author of The Emperor's Children (487k+ Nielsen sales across editions), Booker longlistedThe Burning Girl (2017, 34k+ across editions) named a best book of the year by Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times Recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and LettersLives in Cambridge, Massachusettshttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/magazine/wh