Benjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and for Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. His most recent book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, was published in 2023. A fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library for 2025-26, he is working on a new history of the Jewish resistance to Zionism.