Annie Cohen-Solal is a French academic, writer, historian, and biographer. Her most famous work is a biography of Jean-Paul Sartre, “Sartre: A Life”, which has been translated into sixteen languages. The French edition of her book about the rise of American artists from the 19th to the 20th century, “Un jour ils auront des peintres” (English title: Painting American), was awarded the Prix Bernier by the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
From 1989 to 1993, Cohen-Solal served as Cultural Counselor at the French Embassy in the United States. She has taught at New York University, the University of Berlin, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Université de Paris XIII.
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