Lauren Elkin

Lauren Elkin is the author, most recently, of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto & Windus/FSG), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is the translator of Claude Arnaud's biography of Jean Cocteau (with Charlotte Mandell), which won the 2017 French-American Foundation Translation Award, and of Michelle Perrot's The Bedroom: An Intimate History, just out from Yale UP. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, frieze, and Vogue, among others, and she is a contributing editor at The White Review. A native New Yorker, she has lived in Paris since 2004.