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. For his work bring­ing Clarice Lispec­tor to inter­na­tion­al promi­nence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cul­tur­al Diplo­ma­cy. He has pub­lished trans­la­tions from French, Span­ish, Por­tuguese, and Dutch. A for­mer books colum­nist for Harper’s Mag­a­zine and The New York Times Book Review, he has also writ­ten for The New York­er, Conde Nast Trav­el­er, and The New York Review of Books.