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    Michèle Fitous­si

    Michèle Fitous­si was born in Tunisia to French par­ents, and has lived in Paris since the age of five. She worked as a jour­nal­ist at Elle mag­a­zine for years, inter­view­ing world lead­ers in areas as var­ied as pol­i­tics, human sci­ences, sports, lit­er­a­ture and the media. She is the author of screen­plays, fic­tion and non-fic­tion, includ­ing the inter­na­tion­al best­sellers Superwoman’s had Enough and The Pris­on­er. She also co-wrote Stolen Lives with Mali­ka Oufkir, which sold more than a mil­lion copies through­out the world and remained on the New York Times best-sell­er list for 25 weeks after being stamped as an ​“Oprah Book” by Oprah Win­frey. Her newest book, Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who Invent­ed Beau­ty, is now avail­able. Her forth­com­ing book about the 2008 ter­ror­ist attacks in Mum­bai will be pub­lished in France this September.

    On Writ­ing a Biog­ra­phy of Hele­na Rubinstein

    On Trail­ing the Life of Hele­na Rubinstein

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    Hele­na Rubin­stein and the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

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    Hele­na Rubin­stein and the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Ear­li­er this week Michèle Fitous­si wrote about her fas­ci­na­tion, her research mate­ri­als, and her favorite episodes from Hele­na Rubin­stein’s life. Her biog­ra­phy on…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 17, 2014
    Essay

    Michèle Fitous­si’s Favorite Episodes in Hele­na Rubin­stein’s Biography

    When writ­ing a biog­ra­phy, a biog­ra­ph­er comes across a wealth of infor­ma­tion about their sub­ject. While one tries their best to be objec­tive while they…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 16, 2014
    Essay

    On Trail­ing the Life of Hele­na Rubinstein

    Ear­li­er this week, Michèle Fitous­si wrote about her fas­ci­na­tion with Hele­na Rubin­stein and her deci­sion to write the biog­ra­phy Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 15, 2014
    Essay

    On Writ­ing a Biog­ra­phy of Hele­na Rubinstein

    Michèle Fitous­si is the author of screen­plays, fic­tion and non-fic­tion, includ­ing the inter­na­tion­al best­sellers Superwoman’s had Enough and The Pris­on­er. She also…
    Michèle Fitous­si
    July 14, 2014
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    Non­fic­tion
    Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who Invent­ed Beauty
    Michèle Fitoussi; Kate Bignold and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, trans.

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