Siri Hustvedt's first novel,
The Blindfold, was published by Sceptre in 1993. Since then she has published
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl,
What I Loved,
The Sorrows of an American and
The Summer Without Men. She is also the author of the poetry collection
Reading To You, and four collections of essays,
Yonder,
Mysteries of the Rectangle:
Essays on Painting,
A Plea for Eros and
Living,
Thinking,
Looking, as well as the memoir
The Shaking Woman:
A History of My Nerves.
Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and in 2012 was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities.
www.sirihustvedt.net