Annie Cohen-Solal

Annie Cohen-Solal is a French academic, writer, historian, and biographer. Born in pre-independence Algeria, she is part of the Jewish diaspora that left that country for France during the Algerian War of Independence. Her most famous work is a biography of Jean-Paul Sartre, "Sartre: A Life", which has been translated into sixteen languages. [http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=5306&view=sml_sptlght] The French edition of her book about the rise of American artists from the 19th to the 20th century, "Un jour ils auront des peintres" (English title: "Painting American"), was awarded the Prix Bernier by the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

From 1989 to 1993, Cohen-Solal served as Cultural Counselor at the French Embassy in the United States. [http://www.princeton.edu/~lecentre/calender.htm] She has taught at New York University, the University of Berlin, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Université de Paris XIII. Currently, Cohen-Solal heads the American studies program at the Université de Caen and teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Bibliography

*"Sartre: A Life"
*"Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867-New York 1948 "

External links

* [http://wiredforbooks.org/anniecohensalal/ 1987 audio interview of Annie Cohen-Solal, author of Sartre: A Life. Interview by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio]