Laure Adler is a historian and journalist who served as a cultural adviser to the Office of the French Presidency from 1989 to 1992. She is the author of numerous books, including
L'amour l'arsenic: histoirede Marie Lafarge,
Les femmes politiques, and
L'ann e des adieux.
Anne-Marie Glasheen's translations include two collections of plays by contemporary playwrights and seveal novel, most notably Oedipus on the Road by Henry Bauchau. She is a past Chair of the Translators Association, and in 1998 she was awarded the literary translation prize by the Communaut fran aise de Belgique.