Join Writer-in-Residence Sheila Kohler on April 8th for Writing Characters from Family. Tuesday April 8 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h 30, or 1:30-2:30 pm EDT. In this intimate lecture, learn how to draw ... [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
C Pam Zhang at the American Library in Paris
Join Visiting Fellow C Pam Zhang on March 26th for Seeking Pleasure in a Dying World with C Pam Zhang and Ayşegül Savaş. Wed March 26 @ 19 h 30 - 20 h 30, or 2:30-3:30 pm EDT. Join acclaimed ... [Read More]
Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship – Submissions Close April 17th
The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 1 - APRIL 17, 2025 One talented writer who is the parent of at least one child under 10 years old will ... [Read More]
Sheila Kohler
Sheila Kohler is the author of eleven novels, three collections of short stories and a memoir. Her work has been translated widely abroad and has been awarded many prizes including the O.Henry twice. ... [Read More]
Visiting Fellowships at The American Library in Paris – Apply Now!
Applications close April 1st. The American Library in Paris announces the opening of applications for the 2025-2026 Visiting Fellowship, supported by The de Groot Foundation. Established in ... [Read More]
Meet the 2025 Pen Parentis Fellow
Congratulations to Helen Spencer, the 2025 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]
Adam Shatz Wins American Library in Paris Book Award!
Congratulations to Visiting Fellow Adam Shatz, who was awarded the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award for his novel The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. "In the era ... [Read More]
Melissa Febos at the American Library in Paris
Thank you for a fantastic event, Melissa! Join 2024 Scholar of Note Melissa Febos on January 22nd, 2025 for Crafting Personal Narratives. Wednesday, January 22nd, at 19 h 30 - 20 h 30, or ... [Read More]
Kirstin Chen at the American Library in Paris
Join 2024 Scholar of Note Kirstin Chen on November 27th for The Real Fictional Housewives of Silicon Valley with novelists Kirstin Chen and Colombe Schneck Wednesday, November 27th, at 19 h 30 - 20 ... [Read More]
Ian Williams is the 2024 CBC Massey Lecturer!
Congratulations to 2021-22 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow Ian Williams! His lectures are titled What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time. The book was published by House of ... [Read More]
A. Kendra Greene at the American Library in Paris
Join 2024 Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene on November 13th for her hybrid event! Giraffe Mania: Paris as City of Natural History with Scholar of Note A. Kendra Greene Wednesday, November 13th, at ... [Read More]
Meet the 2024-25 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellows
Congratulations to the 2024-25 Visiting Fellows & Scholars of Note! The AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS Visiting Fellowship Program is sponsored by The de Groot Foundation, and provides writers with ... [Read More]
A. Kendra Greene
A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist based in Dallas. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, first published by Penguin and Granta, and now translated ... [Read More]
Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is the nationally bestselling author of four books, most recently, Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal ... [Read More]
Kirstin Chen
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]
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]