Amanda Gorman (Summer 2020 Writer-in-Residence) 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 ... [Read More]
Writer in Residence Program
The American Library in Paris Writer in Residence Program is sponsored by the de Groot Foundation.
Geraldine Brooks
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks (2020 Writer-in-Residence) 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 ... [Read More]
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (July 2018 Writer-in-Residence) is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of ... [Read More]