In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine ).
In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood.
Kant\'s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud\'s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.
In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine )