Alice Kaplan is the author of French Lessons: A Memoir and The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. She is also the author of a book on Louis Guilloux, The Interpreter, and Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, which was finalist for the Prix Medicis and the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Her translations from the French include Another November and The Difficulty of Being a Dog, both by Roger Grenier. She is the John M. Musser Professor of French, Yale University.