Becoming Colette

by Gillian Gill

With this book you will live the apprenticeships in love and letters of one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century. For over fifty years Colette poured out best-selling novels, essays, memoirs, reviews, scripts, and newspaper articles. And all the while, to the delight of Paris gossip columnists, she paid her own bills, put port and caviar on the table for her various husbands, and swung high and low -- on the trampoline of her private gymnasium and in the bedrooms of her many lovers, H, L, and T. "Becoming Colette" is a must read for all who love French literature and women who create to survive.

324 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2014

About the author

Gillian Gill, who holds a PhD in modern French literature from Cambridge University, has taught at Northeastern, Wellesley, Yale, and Harvard. She is the author of Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale, Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, and Mary Baker Eddy. She lives in suburban Boston.