Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author ... [Read More]
The de Groot Visiting Fellowship at the American Library in Paris
Christian Campbell
Christian Campbell is the author of Running the Dusk (2010), which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has ... [Read More]
The American Library in Paris 2023-24 Visiting Fellows are Announced!
Congratulations to the 2023-24 Visiting Fellows! The AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS Visiting Fellowship Program is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation, and provides writers with the ability to pursue a ... [Read More]
Upcoming Event by Spring Fellow Adrienne Raphel
Adrienne Raphel, the current Visiting Fellow at the American Library In Paris, has an upcoming event! The event will be in person at the American Library and online. The Visiting Fellowships are ... [Read More]
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough.
Journalist and novelist Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee releases her new book, Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough. Weaving stories of asylum seekers, prisoners, ... [Read More]
Kate Kirkpatrick
Kate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher based at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She is the author of several books and articles on French philosophy and the internationally acclaimed biography of Simone de ... [Read More]
Jen Silverman
Jen Silverman, screenwriter, playwright, and author of the novel We Play Ourselves, the story collection The Island Dwellers, and the poetry chapbook Bath. Silverman’s work has appeared in Vogue, ... [Read More]
Mark Mayer
Mark Mayer, whose first book, Aerialists, won the Michener-Copernicus Prize and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His stories have been published in American ... [Read More]
Ladee Hubbard
Ladee Hubbard, the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins and The Rib King. Her short story collection, The Last Suspicious Holdout was published in March of this year. ... [Read More]
Adrienne Raphel
Adrienne Raphel, writer, teacher, and poet, is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Cross words and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them. Her writing appears in the New ... [Read More]
2022-23 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]
Ian Williams
In 2020, author and poet Ian Williams was living in Vancouver while working on his second novel. It was from this position that he lived through the beginning of the pandemic, the wildfires, and the ... [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]
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]
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]
Rhae Lynn Barnes
Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University specializing in the globalization of American popular culture and racism. While at the American Library in ... [Read More]
Ian Leslie
Ian Leslie 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 Deceit, and ... [Read More]
James Verini
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]
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]