biography
Benjamin Moser is a writer, editor, critic, and translator who was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands.
After attending high school in Texas and France, he graduated from Brown University with a degree in History. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht.
He worked at Foreign Affairs magazine and Alfred A. Knopf in New York before becoming an editor at the Harvill Press in London.
He is the New Books columnist for Harper's Magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including Condé Nast Traveler, Newsweek, and The American Scholar.
He has published translations from the Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He speaks six languages in addition to these.
His first book, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, was published in August 2009 by Oxford University Press (USA), Haus Publishing (UK), and Cosac Naify (Brazil).
