2011 Presenters
Anka Muhlstein
Eat Your Words 12:00pm BLP Washington Room
Anka Muhlstein was born in Paris and later settled in New York, where she began her career as a biographer, publishing books on the Rothschild family, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, and the explorer Robert LaSalle as well as essays, articles, and lectures on Proust and his contemporaries. She was awarded the Goncourt Prize in 1996 for her biography of the Marquis de Custine, and has twice received the History Prize of the French Academy. Her new book is Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac.
LINKS:
Lecture by Anka Muhlstein at The Center for Fiction
