About the Author

Sophie Vallas is professor at Aix-Marseille Université, France. She has published essays on several American novelists including Paul Auster, Jerome Charyn, Chester Himes, J. D. Salinger, Flannery O'Connor, Jim Harrison, Don DeLillo, and Colum McCann. She is author of Jerome Charyn et les siens: Autofictions. She is currently editing a volume of essays on Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoirs.