Brit Bennett is the author of the bestsellers The Mothers and The Vanishing Half. She writes fiction that explores race, identity, and the lasting impact of family secrets. Her stories follow
Jean Esch, born in 1962, is a French literary translator working from English, with a graduate degree in English studies. Over a four-decade career he has become one of France's leading translators of crime fiction and thrillers, translating authors including Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, George Pelecanos, and Donald Westlake, as well as Robert Muchamore's Cherub series. He is best known as the principal French translator of Philip Pullman, rendering the His Dark Materials trilogy and the...