About Annie Cohen-Solal Books
Annie Cohen-Solal, a writer and social historian, is Distinguished Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. After earning her PhD from the Sorbonne, she taught at universities in Berlin, Jerusalem, New York, and Paris, and has served as the cultural counselor to the French embassy in the United States. Her books include biographies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Leo Castelli, and Mark Rothko, all of which have been widely translated. Picasso the Foreigner was awarded the 2021 Prix Femina Essai; an exhibition curated by Cohen-Solal and based on the research for this book appeared in Paris at the Museum of the History of Immigration, in partnership with the Musée National Picasso-Paris, in 2021. Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. His four novels have been published in ten languages, and he has translated more than sixty books from the French, including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Leila Slimani's The Perfect Nanny, and Marcel Proust's The Seventy-Five Folios. He grew up in England, spent a decade in France, and now lives in the United States.
