Author
Siri Hustvedt
Birth Date
February 9, 1955
(71 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist, essayist, and scholar known for her intellectually rich fiction and nonfiction that explore psychology, neuroscience, art, and identity. Born in 1955 in Northfield, she studied English literature and later earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Hustvedt is the author of several acclaimed novels, including What I Loved and The Blazing World, as well as essay collections that reflect her deep interest in the mind and human perception. Her work often blends storytelling with philosophical and scientific inquiry, earning her recognition as a distinctive voice in contemporary literature.
Hustvedt is the author of several acclaimed novels, including What I Loved and The Blazing World, as well as essay collections that reflect her deep interest in the mind and human perception. Her work often blends storytelling with philosophical and scientific inquiry, earning her recognition as a distinctive voice in contemporary literature.
Books
Ghost Stories 2026
Ghost Stories is an intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written after the death of Siri Hustvedt’s husband, Paul Auster. The book includes personal, never-before-seen writing by...
In this expansive volume, Hustvedt presents a trilogy of intellectually daring works that reveal the striking breadth of her knowledge across the humanities and sciences. Armed with passionate...
The Blazing World 2014
After years of having her work ignored or dismissed by critics, artist Harriet Burden decides to conduct an experiment: she presents her own art behind three male masks, concealing her female...
Siri Hustvedt's novels are known for being as thought-provoking as they are emotionally involving. In these essays, Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction - an abiding curiosity about who we are...
A woman’s life is suddenly upended when her husband asks for a “pause” in their marriage, forcing her to leave her usual world and spend the summer in a small town surrounded by other women, many of...
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and shaking legs, she continued to speak clearly and...
When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. Siri Hustvedt's The...
What I Loved 2004
Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the...
Lily Dahl, the young heroine of Siri Hustvedt's riveting novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, is a strong, beautiful and daring nineteen year old girl poised on the brink of womanhood. In the small...