Alice Kaplan

Alice Kaplan is the author of many books at the intersection of literature and history, including  The Collaborator: The Interpreter; Dreaming in French;  Looking for the Stranger; and, most recently,  Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris. Co-founder of the Yale Translation Initiative, former Guggenheim Fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of the French Légion d’Honneur as well the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History (for The Collaborator),  she is a member of the Writers Council of the American Library in Paris and the Board of Trustees of the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Alice teaches literature at Yale University, where she is Sterling Professor of French.