Siri Hustvedt

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born

February 19, 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota, The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota. Her father Lloyd Hustvedt was a professor of Scandinavian literature, and her mother Ester Vegan emigrated from Norway at the age of thirty. She holds a B.A. in history from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University; her thesis on Charles Dickens was entitled Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend.

Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also produced a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, 1999, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and Modern Painters.

Like her husband Paul Auster, Hustvedt employs a use of repetitive them...more

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Books by Siri Hustvedt

Average rating: 3.65 · 7,689 ratings · 1,098 reviews · 20 distinct works

	What I Loved 3.95 avg rating — 3,408 ratings — published 2003 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Sorrows of an American 3.42 avg rating — 1,240 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Summer Without Men 3.27 avg rating — 1,140 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Blindfold 3.59 avg rating — 705 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Enchantment of Lily Dahl 3.36 avg rating — 631 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves 3.24 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Plea for Eros: Essays 3.62 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting 4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Yonder: Essays 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.”
― Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

tags: envelope , letter , miles , words , write

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“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

tags: depression , fear , pain

9 people liked it

“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American

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