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Writer in Residence Program

The American Library in Paris Writer in Residence Program is sponsored by the de Groot Foundation.

Sheila Kohler

February 5, 2025

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]

Conversations with Patricia Lockwood

June 27, 2024

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]

Stacy Schiff

June 20, 2024

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]

The Art of Biography: An Interview with Stacy Schiff

June 19, 2024

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

April 30, 2024

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]

Patricia Lockwood is a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at The American Library in Paris.

February 15, 2024

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

February 15, 2024

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]

Amanda Gorman

January 20, 2021

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]

Geraldine Brooks

January 11, 2021

Australian-born Geraldine Brooks grew up in Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Mideast, Africa and the Balkans. ... [Read More]

Viet Thanh Nguyen

July 11, 2018

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Nguyen’s debut ... [Read More]

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The de Groot Foundation is a private 501(C)(3) grant making foundation located in the United States that supports writers and the literary arts.

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