Anka MuhlsteinAnka Muhlstein is the author of biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, and Cavelier de La Salle; studies on Catherine de Medicis, Marie de Medicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart; Balzac's Omelette; onsieur Proust's Library; and The Pen and the Brush. She won the Goncourt Prize for her biography of Astolphe de Custine, and has received two prizes from the Academie francaise. She and her husband, Louis Begley, are the authors of Venice for Lovers. They live in New York City. Read More Read Less