Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt is an American-Norwegian writer, born February 19, 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota, United States.
She holds a B.A. in history from St. Olaf College, and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University (her doctoral thesis on Charles Dickens was entitled "Figures of Dust. A Reading of 'Our Mutual Friend'").
Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also published a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay 1999, Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and Modern Painters.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and shares a daughter with her husband, fellow writer Paul Auster.
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[edit] Creative works
[edit] Fiction
- The Blindfold (1992)
- The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996)
- What I Loved (2003)
- The Sorrows of an American (in progress)
[edit] Poetry
- Reading to You (1983)
[edit] Essays
- Yonder (1998)
- Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2005)
- A Plea for Eros (2005)
[edit] External links
- Interview with Siri Hustvedt in Identity Theory
- Article about Siri Hustvedt in Telegraph
- Video conference from Baruch College, CUNY (2005), Siri Hustvedt gives a reading of her work in progress The Sorrows of an American
- Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books
- Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt talking about her novel What I Loved in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books
- Siri Hustvedt video interview (Dropping Knowledge) in YouTube
- A Spanish-language blog about Paul Auster & Siri Hustvedt
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