François Nourissier is a celebrated French novelist and President of the Académie Goncourt. He has contributed to many newspapers as a literary critic. He was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de la ville de Paris and the Jean Giono prize for his novels. Élisabeth Foucart-Walter is Chief Curator of the Painting Department at the Louvre. She co-wrote Painted Cat (Rizzoli, 1988), with Pierre Rosenberg.
