Diane JohnsonDiane Johnson is an American-born novelist and essayist. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and nominated three times for the National Book Award in three different genres -- essay, biography, and fiction -- she is the author of a dozen novels, ncluding Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L'Affaire. Here she returns to the mode of her classic biography, Lesser Lives. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she splits her time between San Francisco and Paris. Read More Read Less