Hazel Rowley is the author of three previous biographies: Christina Stead: A Biography, a New York Times Best Book; Richard Wright: The Life and Times, a Washington Post Best Book; and Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beavoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, which has been translated into twelve languages. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Gail Eichenthal is the Program Director of Classical KUSC 91.5 FM, and the co-producer and co-host of the Saturday 8am KUSC arts magazine program, Arts Alive. For more than twenty years, she hosted and produced the national radio broadcasts of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gail was previously an award-winning news reporter and anchor at KNX and CBS Radio. Gail's articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the LA Times Magazine, and Symphony Magazine

Hazel Rowley is the author of two previous books of nonfiction: Christina Stead: A Biography and Richard Wright: The Life and Times. She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and a Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe College, and has taught at the University of Iowa and at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She lives in New York and Paris. For her most recent book, Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Rowley scoured reams of unpublished letters and conducted in-depth interviews with survivors of the Sartre-Beauvoir circle. She freely explores the contradictions between their private lives and their public images. For once, we have Sartre's perspective, which has long been overshadowed by Beauvoir's memoirs. In Tête-à-Tête, Rowley turns this truly original relationship between two colossal icons of Western culture into one of the world's most enthralling love stories.