Alice Kaplan
Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. She is the author of
Looking for “The Stranger”: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic,
The Collaborator,
Dreaming in French, and
French Lessons: A Memoir. Kaplan’s book
The Interpreter explores Guilloux’s experience as an interpreter for the U.S. Army courts-martial in Brittany in the summer of 1944. She is also the translator of Guilloux’s novella
OK, Joe, which inspired her research for
The Interpreter.