Mireille Best Author

Mireille Best is the pseudonym of Mireille Lemarchand (1943–2005), who was born and raised in a working-class family in Le Havre, France. Unable to pursue university studies due to health problems, Best worked in a plastics factory after high school and later as a civil servant. She is the author of four volumes of short stories and three novels. Stephanie Schechner is professor emerita of French at Widener University, Pennsylvania, and has published extensively on Mireille Best as well as on other French and Francophone women writers, including Jovette Marchessault, Colette, Nathalie Sarraute, Rachilde, Marguerite Duras, and Jocelyne François.