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Fellowships

Spring Visiting Fellow

March 17, 2023

Spring Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris, Kate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher based at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She is the author of several books and articles on French philosophy ... [Read More]

New Visiting Fellows

July 10, 2022

Adrienne Raphel and Kate Kirkpatrick and will be the 2022-23 Visiting Fellows at the American Library in Paris. Adrienne Raphel, writer, teacher, and poet, is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: ... [Read More]

Visiting Fellow Ian Williams

May 11, 2022

Ian Williams recently discussed his latest book, Disorientation: Being Black in the World at the American Library in Paris. Listen to the conversation here. In 2020, author and poet Ian Williams ... [Read More]

Matthieu Aikins speaks about his new book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water

April 3, 2022

Matthieu Aikins, Visiting Fellow,  speaks about his new book, The Naked Don’t Fear the Water. Listen to his conversation with Alice McCrum at the American Library in Paris.  Journalist Matthieu ... [Read More]

Megan Mayhew Bergman speaks about her new book, How Strange a Season

March 21, 2022

Megan Mayhew Bergman, former Visiting Fellow, speaks about her new book, How Strange a Season, hosted online by the American Library in Paris. Listen to the conversation. Megan Mayhew Bergman is a ... [Read More]

Dina Nayeri

January 7, 2022

Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, winner of the 2020 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, finalist for the 2021 Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices, the 2019 Kirkus Prize, The Los Angeles Times Book ... [Read More]

Eula Biss

April 7, 2021

Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had, which Cathy Park Hong calls “a revelatory and necessary primer on how late capitalism affects our daily lives.” Biss holds an ... [Read More]

Matthieu Aikins

April 7, 2021

Matthieu Aikins has reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008 for magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a ... [Read More]

Amanda Gorman – Writer in Residence Program

January 20, 2021

Amanda 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 her poem The Hill We Climb at the US Presidential ... [Read More]

Mark Braude

January 11, 2021

Mark Braude

Mark Braude has written for The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail and other publications, and has spoken at venues including the US Department of State, the Volkswagen Automotive ... [Read More]

2020 Writer in Residence

January 11, 2021

Geraldine Brooks Australian-born Geraldine Brooks 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 Mideast, ... [Read More]

Library in Nianiar

August 21, 2020

2016 updates from Nianiar | Photos - July through September The Project (content used from a document Louise Huang, from Yes Akademia, wrote to Clydette de Groot) Nianiar is a village of around ... [Read More]

Born Into This

August 21, 2020

directors Sean Ryon and Lea Scruggs

In addition, Born Into This won an Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and has been selected to be part of the Columbia University Showcase at DOC NYC. Sean Ryon and Lea Zora Scruggs are ... [Read More]

Hala Alyan

January 11, 2020

Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is an award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and Colorado ... [Read More]

Molly Antopol

January 11, 2020

Molly Antopol

Molly Antopol's debut story collection, The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton), won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, the French-American ... [Read More]

Saving Capitalism

December 21, 2019

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich meets with Americans from all walks of life as he chronicles a seismic shift in the nation's economy.   ... [Read More]

Rhae Lynn Barnes

July 11, 2019

Rhae Lynn Barnes (July 2019) is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University specializing in the globalization of American popular culture and racism. While at the American ... [Read More]

Ian Leslie

March 11, 2019

Ian Leslie (Spring 2019) is a journalist writing about the science of human behaviour, drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise. He is the author of Born Liars: Why We Can’t Live Without ... [Read More]

Writer in Residence 2018

July 11, 2018

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen (July 2018) is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. ... [Read More]

Seven films. One day.

December 9, 2017

Seven films. One day. Come for one, stay for all. Join us for DOCFEST '17, the annual celebration of the graduating class of documentary filmmakers from the Columbia Journalism School. The morning ... [Read More]

James Verini

October 14, 2017

Fall, 2017 American Library in Paris Fellow - James Verini is a magazine journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. His reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq ... [Read More]

Vanessa Manko

October 14, 2017

Fall, 2017 American Library in Paris Fellow - Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile. She earned her MFA from Hunter College where she was the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship. Her work ... [Read More]

Jacqueline Woodson

January 17, 2017

Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning ... [Read More]

Through the Fire

December 21, 2016

Nyasha Kadandara and Olivia Lace-Evans received the second annual Joyce A. de Groot Memorial Award for THROUGH THE FIRE. Nyasha is a Zimbabwean-born multimedia journalist based in New York and was ... [Read More]

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