Kaplan, Alice

Alice Kaplan is the author of "French Lessons: A Memoir", "The Collaborator", "The Interpreter", and "Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis", and the translator of OK, Joe, The Difficulty of Being a Dog, A Box of Photographs, and "Palace of Books". Her books have been twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, once for the National Book Award, and she is a winner of the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize. She holds the John M. Musser chair in French literature at Yale. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut.