Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of nonfiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at...See more
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of nonfiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. See less
Siri Hustvedt's Featured Books
Siri Hustvedt book reviews
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A Plea for Eros: Essays
Siri Hustvedt's Plea For Eros
"A Plea for Eros" is a rarely insightful and succinct title for an essay. It summarizes the subject matter and importance of what the essay itself has to say in many more words. The essay, "A Plea ... Read More
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What I Loved
Siri Hustvedt's "What I Loved"
I read Hustvedt's 2003 novel "What I Loved" on the strength of several reviews from fellow- reviewers whose writings I enjoy. I was moved by a great deal of the book upon reading it; but I also had ... Read More
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The Sorrows of an American
Not her best
Many interesting characters and a complex structure, many sympathetic characters---but still,not her best novel. My sister sent me, What I Loved, and says it is better than this one.
Stil, this ... Read More
