Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, A Woman's Battles and Transformations, Change, and Collapse, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Freeman's. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris.

John Lambert has translated works by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Emmanuel Carrère. His translation of Carrère's V13 won the 2024 French-American Foundation's Translation Prize. He lives in Nantes, in northwestern France.