Coons, Nancy

Nancy Coons is the author of "Escape to Provence", "Escape to the Riviera", "Fodor s Provence and the Cote d Azur", and"Fodor s Switzerland" and a contributor to guides on France, Italy, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Her commentaries on French life have aired on NPR s "All Things Considered", and she has contributed to "Saveur", the "International Herald Tribune", the "Wall Street Journal", and the "New York Times". She lives in a three-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the Lorraine region of France with her husband and two daughters.