Caroline Weber

Caroline Weber is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, where she specializes in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century French literature and history. Educated at Harvard and Yale, she has also held visiting professorships at Princeton and the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A frequent reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, she has also contributed essays to the London Review of Books, Town & Country, Vogue, and the Washington Post, among many other publications. Her academic honors include a Guggenheim, a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and a writer’s residency at Edith Wharton’s the Mount. Her latest book, Proust’s Duchess (Knopf 2018), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and won the French Heritage Society Book Award. The French government recently named her a Chevalier in the Ordre des arts et des lettres.