“Smith’s George Eliot is brilliant and bold — as you know she is — but Smith is equally daring and no less incisive. She is as worthy a successor to so formidable a writer as is Colm Tóibín to Henry James.” —André Aciman
HOW TO LIVE: A LIFE OF MONTAIGNE by Sarah Bakewell
WINNER OF THE 2010 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A spirited and singular biography of Michel de Montaigne by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored
“A biography in the form of a delightful conversation across the centuries.” —New York Times