Lie with Me

Philippe Besson  is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel,   In the Absence of Men, was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblè s Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of, among others,   Late Autumn  (Grand Prize RTL-Lire),   A Boy from Italy,   and  The Atlantic House. In 2017 he published  Lie With Me, a #1 French bestseller that won the the Maisons de la Presse Prize, and  A Character from a Novel, an intimate portrait of Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign. His novels have been translated into twenty different languages.

Molly Ringwald’ s writing has appeared in  The New Yorker,   The New York Times,   The Guardian, and  Vogue, and she is the author of the bestselling novel-in-stories  When It Happens to You. She previously translated  Lie with Me, a novel by Philippe Besson.