FRONTISPIECE: My father, François-Michel Messud, looking out to sea from the balcony of the family apartment. Algiers, November 1942.
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Excerpt from “October” from Poems 1962–2012 by Louise Glück. Copyright © 2012 by Louise Glück. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Messud, Claire, 1966– author.
Title: Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays / Claire Messud.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2020018802 | ISBN 9781324006756 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781324006763 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Messud, Claire, 1966– | Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. | Novelists, American—21st century—Biography.
Classification: LCC PS3563.E8134 Z46 2020 | DDC 813/.54 [B]—dc23
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