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 and the battle for Mosul in the New York Times ... [Read More]
The American Library in Paris Fellowship
The AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS Visiting Fellowship Program is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation.
The Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris while participating actively in the life of the American Library. Fellowship applicants should be working on a book project, fiction or nonfiction, or a feature-length documentary film, which resonates with the Library’s Franco-American tradition and interests.
Applications for The American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship are now closed. Applications will open again late fall 2023.
Vanessa Manko
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 has appeared in Granta, the New York Times ... [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]
Anna Leahy
Anna Leahy - "As a poet, I'm particularly interested in the ways that form and structure shape content and in the ways that subject matter may lead to particular choices about form. I plan to share ... [Read More]
Doug Dechow
Doug Dechow - "I’m a digital humanist who works, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the Center for American War Letters (CAWL) at Chapman University. This archive ... [Read More]
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Megan Mayhew Bergman was raised in North Carolina and now lives on a small farm in Vermont. She is the Associate Director of Bennington College's MFA program. Megan studied anthropology at Wake ... [Read More]
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang is a poet and author of Hunger, a collection of short fiction, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her latest novel, The Family Chao, was published by ... [Read More]
Susan Hiner
Susan Hiner, of Vassar College, worked on her upcoming book: Behind the Seams: Women, Work and Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France while a Visiting Fellow. Professor Hiner's research and teaching ... [Read More]
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the best selling book, Between the World and Me and the ... [Read More]
Alex Danchev
Alex Danchev was an unorthodox Professor of International Relations at The University of St Andrews. He wrote extensively on art and political violence in the modern period. Some of this work is ... [Read More]
Anthony Flint
Anthony Flint is the Director of Public Policy at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He completed work on his book: Modern Man: The Life of Corbusier while a fellow at the American ... [Read More]