Critical Praise

"It will stand as literature in its own right. "

———Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

"[Colette] has been the subject of . . . a half-dozen significant biographies over the past thirty years. Yet this one by Judith Thurman will be hard to top. . . . Its prose is smoothly urbane, at times aphoristic, always captivating. "

———The Washington Post Book World

"The most impressive and fascinating book of the ...season. No novel, no memoir, no other biography displays such insight and vitality. . . . Through deft observation, research, and beautiful writing, Thurman brings alive one of the most astonishing writers and women ever to stride this earth. "

———USA Today