Anka Muhlstein

Anka  Muhlstein

Anka Muhlstein was born in the city of Paris in the year 1935. Muhlstein's works include biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, Cavelier de La Salle, and Astolphe de Custine, as well as studies of Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria, a double biography of Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, and, most recently, Balzac's Omelette (Other Press). She has received two Académie française prizes, as well as the Goncourt Prize for Biography. Venice for Lovers is a book she and her husband, Louis Begley, wrote about Venice. They are residents of New York City.