ONLINE: Claire Messud
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Author Claire Messud.
Novelist Claire Messud will discuss her new memoir, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, with novelist Meg Wolitzer live on Crowdcast (as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival). It's subtitled "an autobiography in essays." So the reader may find out about her peripatetic childhood, how Messud turned characters she wrote about as an undergraduate into fodder for her early novels and what it's like to be a creative writing professor at Harvard, married to another Harvard professor. The Wisconsin Book Festival's annual weekend event is Oct. 15-17; find the full schedule here.