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Gregoire Bouillier was born in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, and raised in Paris. A former editor of the magazine Science et Vie, he is the author of four works of autobiography, including Report on Myself and Le Dossier M. Having worked as a painter and journalist, he published his first memoir, The Mystery Guest, when he was forty years old. A London native, Ben Truman lives in New York.
"""This perfect little book [is] a message to extraterrestrial intelligence that says: we are human, heartbroken, grim and funny in our despair, yet hopeful and miracle-prone.""--John Hodgman ""Existential angst has rarely been as humorous or as heartbreaking."" -- ""People"" ""Proust in a bottle . . . Read it . . . Pick it up again. Be startled."" -- ""GQ"" ""Sad, funny and vivid . . . As The Mystery Guest beautifully shows . . . even when the story seems to have spun out of our control (your lover leaves you, you lose your job, you are surrounded by intimations of mortality and loss) the power to reclaim it lies within your grasp."" --Erica Wagner ""New York Times Book Review"""
