Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, Change, Monique Escapes, and Collapse, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Freeman’s. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris.
Tara K. Menon is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. Her first academic book, Speaking Parts: Character, Conversation, and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century British Novels, will be published in Fall 2026 by Princeton University Press. Her debut novel, Under Water, will be published in March 2026 by Riverhead (US) and Summit (UK). Rights have also sold in 31 other territories. Her reviews and essays have appeared in venues including the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Sewanee Review, Bookforum, and The Nation.
Writers Speak brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.
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