A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, Alfred de Montesquiou is a journalist, essayist, and documentary filmmaker. Winner of the 2012 Albert Londres Prize, France's highest award for journalism (the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), he is the author of many books, of which this is the first to be translated into English. He has also directed several documentaries, including Jules, a French TV series based on I, Julius Caesar.