Authors

Sophie Mas was born and raised in Paris. After graduating from Sciences Po and HEC, she started her own film company and now works as a producer in Los Angeles, New York, and São Paulo.

Caroline de Maigret studied literature at the Sorbonne before moving to New York to model. She returned to Paris in 2006 to found her music label. De Maigret has been an ambassador for Chanel since 2012 and supports women worldwide through the NGO CARE. In 2014, she became a muse for Lancôme.

Audrey Diwan became a scriptwriter after studying journalism and political science. She wrote the screenplay for Cédric Jimenez’s La French, with Jean Dujardin, and is now directing her first feature film; she is also editor-at-large for the French edition of the magazine Stylist.

Anne Berest is the author of two novels and a biography of Françoise Sagan; she also writes for television, film, and theater.

Daniel de la Falaise trained as a chef at Harry’s Bar in London, later opening George Club in London’s Mayfair with his great uncle Mark Birley, “The King of Clubs”. Today, he works as a private chef, growing many of his ingredients on his farm in southwest France. He has been profiled in T The New York Times Style Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Town & Country.

Tom Service writes about music for The Guardian, where he was Chief Music Critic, and has presented ‘Music Matters’, BBC Radio 3’s flagship music magazine programme, since 2003. He appears regularly on television and radio as a musical commentator. He was Guest Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2005, and that year became the inaugural recipient of the ICMP/CIEM Classical Music Critic of the Year award. He lives in London.

Louisa Hall grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard, she played squash professionally while finishing her premedical coursework and working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Texas at Austin, is a professor at the University of Iowa, and the Western Writer in Residence at Montana State University.

She is the author of The Carriage House, Speak and Trinity and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.

Tony Bartelme is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina.

Bartelme was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2011. He has also been the recipient of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award and Phillip Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing, and the Associated Press Managing Editors Award for his work.

In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his series of articles which is the basis for Send Forth the Healing Sun.

Filippo D’Angelo lives between Genoa and Paris. A writer and translator, he is the author of The End of the Other World and curator of the anthology Troppe puttane! Troppo canottaggio!
D’Angelo is also director of the online cultural magazine Snaporaz.

Sabri Louatah was born in Saint-Etienne, France, in 1983 and now lives in Philadelphia. Born into a family of Algerian origin, he writes thrillers bringing to the fore current issues surrounding identity, paranoia, and racism. He is the author of The Savages: The Wedding, the first in a four-volume collection of political thrillers adapted for television in 2019.