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About the Author

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French novelist and biographer Alexandra Lapierre is a graduate of the Sorbonne and the University of Southern California. Her bestselling books have been translated worldwide, including two titles in English, Fanny Stevenson and Artemisia, and have garnered her numerous awards, including the best book of the year by the readers of Elle magazine for her biography of American pioneer Fanny Stevenson. She was voted Woman of Culture by the city of Rome, Italy, and has been nominated Chevalier in the “Order of Arts and Letters” by the French government. Her most recent work, L’Excessive, was an immediate best seller in Europe and is being developed for a television series. Alexandra Lapierre lives in Paris.