Pierre Assouline

French writer and journalist (born 1953)

Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family.^[1] He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.

As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including:

• Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer
• Marcel Dassault, the aeronautics pioneer
• Gaston Gallimard, the publisher
• Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin
• Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the art dealer
• Georges Simenon, the detective novelist and creator of Inspector Maigret

Several of these books have been translated into English and the Henri Cartier-Bresson biography has been translated into Chinese.

As a journalist, Assouline has worked for the leading French publications Lire and Le Nouvel Observateur. He also publishes a blog, "La république des livres".

Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays about Wikipedia by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision.^[2] Assouline contributed the preface.^[3]

In January 2007 Assouline published a blog post criticizing Wikipedia's article on the Dreyfus Affair.^[4]

References

1. "Pierre Assouline".
2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "La revolution wikipedia". cultura.com (in French). Retrieved 17 April 2023.
4. "Les erreurs traquées de Wikipédia". 9 July 2007.