Benjamin Moser


Benjamin Moser is an American writer. For , he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The citation described an "authoritatively constructed work told with pathos and grace, that captures the writer’s genius and humanity alongside her addictions, sexual ambiguities and volatile enthusiasms".

Biography

Born in Houston, Moser attended St. John's School and graduated from Brown University with a degree in History. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University. He is the brother of author and progressive political activist Laura Moser.
Moser served as New Books Columnist for Harper's Magazine in 2009, has published articles in The New York Review of Books, and is the author of a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector titled '. He has edited a series of new translations of Clarice Lispector's work at New Directions. For his work as biographer, editor, and translator of Clarice Lispector, he was awarded the Prize for Cultural Diplomacy from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations in 20016.
In 2013, he was named the authorized biographer of the American writer Susan Sontag. In 2019, he published a biography of Susan Sontag entitled ', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2020.
He has published translations from the Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has lived in the Netherlands, France, and Italy.

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