James Twining
James Twining graduated from Oxford University with a degree in French literature. His first Tom Kirk adventure, The Double Eagle, was published with great success on both sides of the Atlantic. He lives in London with his wife and their two ... [... more]
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Theophile Gautier
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet-not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town-Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My ... [... more]
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Georges Bernanos
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art. Trade ... [... more]
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Betool Khedairi
Betool Khedairi was born in Baghdad in 1965 to an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother. She received a B.A. in French literature from the University of Mustansirya and then traveled between Iraq, Jordan, and the United Kingdom, working in the food ... [... more]
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Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield is in her early forties. Having spent time in France, she now lives in Harrogate. Her background is an academic one. Her previous publications have been in the field of 19th and 20th century French literature, especially the ... [... more]
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J.C. Whitehouse
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art. Trade ... [... more]
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Fanny Howe
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art. Trade ... [... more]
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Alexandre Leupin
Alexandre Leupin, a native of Geneva, Switzerland, is Gregorie Professor in French at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he teaches French literature, art, epistemology, and psychoanalysis. In addition to numerous articles, his works ... [... more]
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Francois Ricard
François Ricard has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1971. His collection of essays on contemporary literature, La littérature contre elle-même, won the Governor General's Award in Canada. His writing [... more]
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