Nadine Joseph, daughter of an Alsatian and a Tourangelle, passed her French "bac" before earning a B.A. in French literature at Barnard College and two masters degrees from Columbia University.
As a journalist, she has covered the Cannes Film Festival for the Associated Press and events at the United Nations for Agence France Press, and she taught a course about the foreign press at U.C. Berkeley. Her articles, have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Columbia Journalism Review and Redbook.
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