Stendhal (1783-1842) was the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle. He's best known for his works The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.

André Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt, the novel Call Me by Your Name, and the essay collections False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory and Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere. He is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust.

Paul Eprile has translated four novels by Jean Giono-Hill, Melville, The Open Road, and Fragments of a Paradise-and two by Colette-Chéri, and The End of Chéri. For Melville he was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. Eprile lives on the Niagara Escarpment northwest of Toronto.