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A recipient of guggenheim and radcliffe fellowships and the strauss living award from the american academy of arts and letters, she lives in cambridge, massachusetts, with her family. Claire messud is the author of six works of fiction. The woman upstairs ebook by claire messud rakuten kobo. Claire messuds new novel, the woman upstairs, delves into the inner life of the quiet, friendly and secretly furious woman upstairs.
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