Author of NBCC-nominee FRENCH LESSONS, and NBCC and NBA nominee (and LA Times Award winner) for THE COLLABORATOR, Alice Kaplan’s THE INTERPRETER, the story of American GIs court-martialed in liberated France, and of black troops publicly hung (including Emmet Till’s father) while whites avoided trial or punishment, to Bruce Nichols at the Free Press, in a good deal, with multiple bidders for publication in fall 2005, by Marly Rusoff (world).
“Despite a strong attachment to her editor at the University of Chicago Press, Alan Thomas, Kaplan and Rusoff believed the new book, with its American subject, had more commercial possibilities.”
