The American Library in Paris Writer-in-Residence program was created to foster cultural and artistic exchange between prominent writers and the Library community. The sinvites a writer for a short-term residency that will provide a unique opportunity for engagement. The Writer-in-Residence program is made possible through the support of the de Groot Foundation.
The Writer-in-Residence Program is by invitation only.
2024:
Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood (2024 Writer-in-Residence) is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel “No One Is Talking About This,” an international bestseller, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, finalist… More
Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff (2024 Writer-in-Residence) is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of… More2020:
Amanda Gorman Amanda Gorman (Summer 2020 Writer-in-Residence) made history in 2017 by being named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States and again in 2020 When she read… More
Geraldine Brooks Australian-born Geraldine Brooks (2020 Writer-in-Residence) grew up in Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the… More2018:
Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen (July 2018 Writer-in-Residence) is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.… More