Evelyne Bloch-Dano Author

Evelyne Bloch-Dano is a prizewinning and widely translated author whose most notable works include the biographies Madame Zola (1997, Elle magazine's Grand prix des lectrices), Flora Tristan: La femme-messie (2001, Prix François Billetdoux), Madame Proust (2004, Prix Renaudot de l'essai), and Le Dernier amour de George Sand (2010) as well as many other titles.

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago.

Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University and the author of Dreaming in French.