Alice Kaplanis the Sterling Professor of French and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. She is the author of several books, including French Lessons, Looking for "The Stranger,"and Dreaming in French, also published by the University of Chicago Press .She has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut. Laura Marrisis a writer and translator. Her recent translations include Albert Camus's The Plague, Louis Guilloux's Blood Dark, and Geraldine Schwarz's Those Who Forget. Her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, is forthcoming. She lives in Buffalo, New York.