Author Profile
SIRI HUSTVEDT
 SIRI HUSTVEDT is an American poet
and novelist, writer of the bestselling What I Loved and two other novels,
The Blindfold and
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl.
She graduated with a BA in History from St. Olaf College and a PhD in
English from Columbia University. Her doctoral thesis on Charles
Dickens was titled “Figures of Dust. A Reading of Our Mutual
Friend”.
She mainly made her name as a novelist, but has also
published a book of poetry, Reading
to You, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects
published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, Best American Short
Stories, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and Modern Painters.
Her books of essays include Yonder,
Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting and A Plea for Eros.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and shares a daughter with her
husband, fellow writer Paul Auster.
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