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Born in the United States, Messud grew up in Australia and Canada , returning to the US as a teenager. Her mother is Canadian, her father is of Algerian origin, and her sister is French . She was educated at Milton Academy , Yale University and then Cambridge , where she met her spouse, the British literary critic James Wood . Messud also briefly attended the MFA program at Syracuse University . She and Wood have two children, and live in Somerville, Massachusetts .

Messud has taught creative writing at Kenyon College , Amherst College , in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina , and in the Graduate Writing program at Johns Hopkins University .


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