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| About the Author: |
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| Herbert R. Lottman |
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A New Yorker by birth, Herbert Lottman first went to France as a Fulbright scholar (at the time he recognized Albert Camus sitting at a sidewalk cafe, the Flore at Saint Germain-des-Près, but was too shy to approach him). Returning to France to settle there, Lottman ran the European office of an American publisher, contributing articles and reviews to American periodicals including Harper's, Saturday Review, the New York Times and the New York Times Book Review. Later, he joined the staff of Publishers Weekly, the American book trade journal, as international correspondent.
In a second career Lottman wrote this first and still the definitive biography of Albert Camus, as well as biographies of other famous (but famously undocumented) French figures ranging from Flaubert and Colette to Philippe Pétain and the Rothschilds. He is also the author of The Left Bank: Writers, Artists and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War and The Fall of Paris: June 1940. The French Cultural Ministry recently promoted Herbert Lottman to the rank of Officer in the National Order of Arts and Letters. |
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| Acclaim for Herbert R. Lottman's Albert Camus: |
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| ''Herbert Lottman's Albert Camus ... is exhaustive, a labor of love and of wonderful industry.'' |
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| John Sturrock in The New York Times Book Review |
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| ''What emerges from Mr. Lottman's tireless devotion is a portrait of the artist ... simultaneously sensuous and austere.'' |
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| John Leonard, in the daily New York Times |
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| ''The detail and the care are extraordinary.'' |
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| Christopher Hitchens, The New Statesman (London) |
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