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:
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]
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