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]
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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]
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]
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
Amanda Gorman 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]