Simon Wor­rall is the author of two high­ly acclaimed books, The Poet and the Mur­der­er (Dut­ton & Plume/​Penguin Put­nam USA, 2002; Fourth Estate UK), which William Sty­ron called, ​“A grip­ping tale, done with great style and elegance…it held me in its spell from begin­ning to end,” and the nov­el­ized true sto­ry of his moth­er in World War II, The Very White of Love (Harper­Collins, 2018). A Fran­cophile since his Parisian child­hood, Simon is flu­ent in French and speaks five oth­er lan­guages. He was the cura­tor and inter­view­er for Nation­al Geographic’s ​“Book Talk” pro­gram for many years. He has been pub­lished in The Inde­pen­dent, The Guardian, The Lon­don Times, Marie Claire, GQ, and numer­ous oth­er pub­li­ca­tions world­wide. His fea­ture, ​“Emi­ly Dick­in­son Goes To Las Vegas,” was the first piece of non­fic­tion ever pub­lished by George Plimp­ton in The Paris Review. Wor­rall is an expe­ri­enced broad­cast­er, whose com­men­taries have aired on the BBC and NPR.