Polly Platt (author)

:"For the American film producer, production designer and screen writer, see Polly Platt

Polly Platt is an American author specializing in books related to Americans living or working in France, in addition to being a consultant, seminar leader, and public speaker. In 1986 she established a training company, Culture Crossings, in Paris, offering seminars and workshops on living in France and intercultural management issues. Workshop participants, including corporate executives and spouses from companies doing business in France, supplied real-life anecdotes of cultural confusion, anger and disorientation. These anecdotes became the centerpiece of Polly Platt's bestselling book, "French or Foe?" (1994), listed on About.com as one of the top books on French culture. [ [http://french.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/culture.htm About.com: Top 10 books on French Culture] ] Financial Times calls this book the "bible for Anglo-Saxon executives doing business in France." [ [http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=Polly+Platt&y=7&aje=true&x=16&id=070212001108&ct=0 Financial Times interview of Polly Platt] ]

A native of Philadelphia, descended from a French Huguenot who escaped from France to Charleston, S.C., in 1685, Platt graduated from Wellesley College and was a journalist with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the New York Post before moving to Paris in 1967 with her Serbian husband, Alexander Grchich, a UNESCO official, and their five children. Platt has been profiled in newspapers including The International Herald Tribune, the Independent, Le Figaro, L'Express, Paris Match, the Irish Times, and on television programs such as the Nightly Business Report and Europe 2000. She has twice been featured on the TODAY SHOW, interviewed by Bryant Gumble in Cannes and by Matt Lauer halfway up the Eiffel Tower.

Books

Polly has written "Savoir-Flair, 211 Tips for Enjoying France and the French" (2000), which was published as a companion to "French or Foe?". She has also written a third book, "Love à la Française - What Happens When Hervé Meets Sally?" (2008), which follows the lives of American women and the French loves of their life.

References

External Links

* [http://www.pollyplatt.com Polly Platt's website]