Anka Muhlstein was born in Paris in 1935. She settled in New York in 1974 where she began her career as a writer in French. She was awarded the Goncourt Prize in 1996 for her biography of Custine, and has twice received the History Prize of the French Academy. Her books include a double biography of Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Balzac’s Omelette, and, most recently, Monsieur Proust’s Library, published in November 2012.
Books
Letters from Russia
The Marquis de Custine’s record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world’s most fascinating and troubled countries.