
Jean-Noël Liaut is a French writer, translator and journalist. He is the author of several biographies and essays, including Bizarre Angels A Century of Eccentrics (2001), Karen Blixen: An African Odyssey (2004), The Many Lives of Miss K. (2013), In Praise of Bitches (2013), Sisters in Rebellion : Elsa Triolet & Lili Brik (2015), She, Edmonde (2017), Nancy Mitford : The Lady of Gentleman Street (2019), Andy Warhol The White Fox (2021), The Rebellious Princess (life of Gayatri Devi, Maharani of Jaipur, 2023) and a volume of diaries, Ferociously Yours (2005). His books have been translated into English, Italian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Ukrainian and Chinese.