Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St. Germain Tapa dura - 2005

Novelist, travel writer, biographer, and essayist DIANE JOHNSON was born in 1934 in Illinois. She earned a Ph.D. in English from UCLA in the late 1960s just as her first novel, Fair Game, was published. After several more novels, Johnson wrote the National Book Award-nominated Lesser Lives. In 1997, Diane Johnson published Le Divorce, which went on to become a National Bestseller and marked the author's third time as a National Book Award Finalist for fiction. Le Divorce was released as a major motion picture in 2003. Her next novel, Le Mariage (2000) was on the bestseller lists in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, and Newsday, and was a New York Times Book Review "Notable Book" for 2000. Her thirteenth novel, L'Affaire, was published to critical acclaim by Dutton in 2003. Diane Johnson now divides her time between Paris and San Francisco.