Books by Sarah Chihaya
Sarah Chihaya is an Assistant Professor in English at Princeton University. She is currently at work on her first monograph, Begin Again: Rewriting Contemporary Fiction, which examines the role of rewriting in the British novel from 1980 to the present, in works by Peter Ackroyd, Kate Atkinson, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, W.G. Sebald, Zadie Smith, and others. She is also a co-author and editor of Collective Criticism: Reading Elena Ferrante, with Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards. Chihaya’s other recent writing can be found in Alluvium, C21: Journal of 21st Century Writing, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, Public Books, Jezebel, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the editor of Contemporaries at Post45.
Bibliophobia: A Memoir
by Sarah Chihaya
☆ Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography
"Bibliophobia can only occur when someone has, crudely stated, loved books to a dangerous degree," states Sarah Chihaya in this erudite memoir of breakdown and love of literature. "You may have bibliophobia if you frequently experience intense reactions to books that somehow act on you, or activate you, in ways you suspect are unhealthy or hurtful—or at times, simply bad for you. And yet they are necessary; you would not be you without them."
Interviews where books by Sarah Chihaya were recommended
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Autobiographies and Memoirs
Since 2023, the Pulitzer Prize jury has awarded $15,000 annually to “a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author.” We’ve put together a list of the exceptional books that have received this honour since the prize’s inauguration—plus the finalists who have been singled out for particular praise.
