Institut français Centenary

Biographers Pierre Assouline and Richard Holmes discuss their work from their idiosyncratic Franco-British perspectives. How has the writing of biographies evolved over the past few decades? What differences can be drawn between the genre in France and in the UK? Pierre Assouline is a novelist, biographer, and journalist whose most recent book in English is Hergé, the Man who created Tintin. Richard Holmes has written numerous biographies, notably those of Coleridge and Shelley, and contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books.

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