Paul French

Paul French is a bestselling author and critically acclaimed historian from London, who lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He received the Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar award for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers’ Association Dagger award for nonfiction. City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir received much praise with The Economist calling him a ‘champion storyteller’. His most recent book is the acclaimed Wallis Simpson: Her Lotus Year in 1920s China.