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]
Fellowships
New Visiting Fellows
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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]