Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include: The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), and Memories of the Future (2019). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. 2Early life Daughter of professor Lloyd Hustvedt, Siri attended public school in her hometown Northfield, Minnesota and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973. She started writing at thirteen after a family trip to Reykjavík where she read various works of classic literature. She was particularly impressed by Dickens' David Copperfield, and decided that she wanted to make literature her profession after finishing the book. Hustvedt graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in History in 197