Kirstin Chen is the New York Times best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors’ ... [Read More]
Fellowships
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Visiting Fellowship and Scholar of Note programs at the American Library in Paris
Writer-in-Residence program at the American Library in Paris
Pen Parentis fellowship
David Bell
David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Department of History at Princeton where he recently served as director of Princeton’s Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. ... [Read More]
C Pam Zhang
C Pam Zhang is the author of two bestselling novels, How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, a Booker Prize nominee, and the ... [Read More]
Thank You 2024 Visiting Fellows!
Thank you Adam Shatz and Christian Campbell for your thoughtful, poignant and inspiring conversations while Visiting Fellows. As soon as the videos are available, we will share the links. During ... [Read More]
Conversations with Patricia Lockwood
Watch writer-in-residence Patricia Lockwood's recent events at The American Library in Paris: Writing Now: A Conversation with Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood is a poet, memoirist, and novelist, ... [Read More]
Thank you Christian Campbell
for your thoughtful, poignant and inspiring conversations while a Visiting Fellow. As soon as we have the videos, we'll post them. Christian Campbell is the author of Running the Dusk (2010), which ... [Read More]
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff 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 ... [Read More]
Meet Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz
Join Adam Shatz on June 25th and June 26th for his hybrid events at the American Library in Paris. (Hybrid) In Focus: An Evening with Claire Denis and Adam Shatz Tue June 25 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h ... [Read More]
The Art of Biography: An Interview with Stacy Schiff
Watch recent writer in residence Stacy Schiff’s conversation with Elaine Sciolino on “The Art of Biography" HERE Learn more about Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer ... [Read More]
Stacy Schiff at The American Library in Paris
Thank you, Stacy, for a great program on The Art of Biography at the American Library in Paris! Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer ... [Read More]
The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship For New Parents
Submissions have now closed. Stay tuned for the next Pen Parentis Salon! The writing fellowship offers one writer who is the parent of at least one child under 10 years old $2000 to further their ... [Read More]
Patricia Lockwood is a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at The American Library in Paris.
Patricia Lockwood is a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the American Library in Paris. She has two events coming up: (Hybrid) Patricia Lockwood, Writing Now: A Conversation Tuesday, March 26 at 19 h ... [Read More]
Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood 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 for the Booker Prize, ... [Read More]
2024 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship
Applications close April 1st, 2024. The Visiting Fellowship offers writers and researchers an opportunity to pursue a creative project in Paris for a month or longer while participating actively in ... [Read More]
Join Simon Kuper and Ian Leslie in “From Cliques to Politics”
(Hybrid) From Cliques to Politics with Simon Kuper and Ian Leslie Tue November 14 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h 30, or 1:30-2:30 ET. Journalists Simon Kuper and Former Visiting Fellow Ian Leslie discuss the ... [Read More]
Join Scholar of Note Lauren Oyler’s Workshop on Criticism
(Hybrid) How to Criticize with Lauren Oyler Wed November 15 @ 19 h 00 - 20 h 30 Inspired by the adage “everyone's a critic,” Scholar of Note Lauren Oyler shares how to develop and express taste in ... [Read More]
Join Simon Kuper and Ian Leslie in “From Cliques to Politics”
(Hybrid) From Cliques to Politics with Simon Kuper & Ian Leslie November 14 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h 30, or 1:30-2:30 ET. Journalists Simon Kuper and Former Visiting Fellow Ian Leslie discuss the role ... [Read More]
Meet the 2024 Pen Parentis Fellow
Congratulations to Taylor Hobbs, the 2024 Pen Parentis Fellow! The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents is supported in part by The de Groot Foundation. The writing fellowship ... [Read More]
The American Library in Paris Scholar of Note Program Launches with Ladee Hubbard
Ladee Hubbard, launched the Scholar of Note Program at The American Library in Paris on Tuesday, September 26, 19:30-21:00 followed by a reception. Her presentation, Myth, Power and Genre provided an ... [Read More]
Tess Lewis
Tess Lewis is an American translator, writer, and essayist. She is best known for her translation of French author Christine Angot's novel, Incest, which was nominated for the Best Translated Book ... [Read More]
Lauren Oyler
Lauren Oyler is an American author and critic based in Berlin, Germany. She has co-written two books with Alyssa Mastromonaco and has ghostwritten for other people as well. Her debut novel, Fake ... [Read More]
Vanessa Onwuemezi
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story 'At the Heart of Things' won the White Review Short Story Prize ... [Read More]
Adam Shatz
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]
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]