“A beautiful memoir of a life-long obsession, a peek behind the curtains at the biographer’s art, and, not least, a rich and vivid portrait of Camus himself.”
—Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine

About The Author

Elizabeth Hawes - Author of Camus A RomanceElizabeth Hawes (also known as Betsy Hawes Weinstock) is the author of New York, New York, How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and contributor to The New Yorker, she has written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation and numerous other publications. She also wrote Martha Stewart's best selling books Entertaining and Weddings.

About herself, Elizabeth, also known as Betsy, writes:

I grew up in the Mid-West, arrived wide-eyed in New York after college and study in France, and have been a writer since my early days at The New Yorker, drawn particularly to the arts and urban culture, gradually working my way from journalism to longer narratives. In the process, I married, had three children and many dogs, moved out of the city and back to the city and from uptown to downtown, which feels like both Old New York and Europe to me. I have always loved buildings and their stories and I have always been drawn to France and hope to write more about both.