Authors

Anne-Gaëlle Huon was born in 1984 in France, and she started writing when she moved to New York in 2014. She has a passion for lists and an affinity for old ladies (especially her grandmother). Her first novel Happiness Has No Wrinkles (2017) tells the story of Pauline, a feisty old lady who finds herself, against her will, in a care home full of secrets. Her subsequent novels, sometimes gleaned from her own family history, all share the same tender and joyful tone, and where hope and resilience triumph. Her two latest novels, Les demoiselles (2020) and its spin-off Ce que les étoiles doivent à la nuit (2021), published by Albin Michel, pay dazzling tribute to the Basque Country, its traditional espadrille sewing, and its gastronomy. Her novels have been awarded numerous prizes (Prix des Lecteurs U, Prix des lecteurs Culture Presse, Grand Prix de l’Innerwheel). She has over one million readers, and she has been published in many countries.

She is currently co-writing an international television series.

Emma Deruschi lives in Paris where she works as a copyright lawyer. After many years of writing for herself, The Woman We Are is her first novel.

Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on American national security and the National Book Award for Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. At the New York Times, he covered the CIA in Washington and conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many other nations. Legacy of Ashes was acclaimed as one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Time, and many other publications. His new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century, was ranked #3 on the New York Times bestseller list upon its publication. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Kate Doyle, an expert in human rights and freedom of information.

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Richard Cohen is the author of Chasing the Sun (praised by The Boston Globe as ‘unfailingly riveting’); By the Sword (which Nelson DeMille called, ‘an epic journey through history…’); and How to Write Like Tolstoy (regarded by Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel ‘a wry critical friend to both writer and reader’). The former publishing director of Hutchinson and Hodder & Stoughton, books Cohen has edited have gone on to win the Pulitzer, Booker and Whitbread/Costa prizes, and twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. Among the authors he has worked with are Madeleine Albright (including the New York Times bestseller Fascism), Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Faulks, Studs Terkel, John Keegan, Richard Holmes, John le Carré, Jeffrey Archer, Sir Harold Evans,Tony Benn, Barbara Castle, William Trevor, Kingsley Amis and Fay Weldon.

For more than 35 years Cohen has written, edited, and lectured on numerous subjects around the world, from talks on the Queen Mary II to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium. For seven years he was a visiting professor in creative writing at the university of Kingston-upon-Thames in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was program director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature for two years, and during his tenure it became the largest book festival in the world. He has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review and most British quality newspapers.

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Fiona McFarlane is the author of The Night Guest; The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize; and The Sun Walks Down. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and Zoetrope: All-Story. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Elizabeth Kolbert is the bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Under a White Sky, which was named a top ten book of the year by The Washington Post, and, most recently, Life on a Little-Known Planet. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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Dr. Susan Liautaud is the founder and managing director of Susan Liautaud & Associates Limited, which advises clients ranging from global corporations to NGOs on complex ethics matters. She teaches cutting-edge ethics courses at Stanford University and is the founder of the nonprofit platform The Ethics Incubator. She also chairs and serves on a number of global nonprofit boards. She divides her time between Palo Alto, California, and London.

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Bari Weiss is a writer and former editor of The New York Times Opinion Section where her brief was culture and politics. Before joining the Times, she was an op-ed editor at the Wall Street Journal and associate book review editor. For two years, she was a senior editor at Tablet, where she edited the site’s political and news coverage. She is a graduate of Columbia University. She has appeared at the Aspen Ideas Festival, interviewing Jordan Peterson as well as Christina Paxson (Brown University President). She also interviewed Yuval Noah Harari for Times Talks. She won the Reason Foundation’s Bastiat Prize, a $10,000 award for her “brilliant, incisive journalism [that] defends that cornerstone of individual liberty and civil society: freedom of speech.” Weiss has made numerous appearances on national television and was profiled in Vanity Fair’s May 2019 issue.

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Widely acknowledged as the intellectual founder of the animal rights movement, Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. The best-selling author of Animal Liberation and The Most Good You Can Do, among other works, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and Melbourne, Australia.

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