Nadeau, Jean-Benoît 1964-

PERSONAL:

Born December 20, 1964; married Julie Barlow (a journalist and author). Education: McGill University, graduated, 1992.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Montreal, Quebec, Canada. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Journalist, 1992—. Traveling lecturer in the United States, 2004.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Institute of Current World Affairs, Hanover, NH, fellow, 1998; Best Journalist of the Year award, Quebec Association of Magazine Publishers, 2004.

WRITINGS:

Le guide du travailleur autonome: Tout savoir pour faire carrière chez soi, INCA (Montréal, Québec, Canada), 2000.

Les français aussi ont un accent: Mésaventures anthropologiques d'un québécois en Vieille-France, Payot (Paris, France), 2002.

(With wife, Julie Barlow) Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, but Not the French, Sourcebooks (Naperville, IL), 2003.

(With Julie Barlow) The Story of French, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to periodicals, including L'Actualité, Québec Science, Commerce, Saturday Night Magazine, National Post Business, Report on Business Magazine, and Profit.

SIDELIGHTS:

For Sidelights, see Barlow, Julie.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, June 1, 2003, Beth Leistensnider, review of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, but Not the French, p. 1717; October 15, 2006, David Pitt, review of The Story of French, p. 12.

Independent (London, England), January 12, 2007, John Lichfield, "Plus ça Change."

Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2006, review of The Story of French, p. 941.

Library Journal, June 15, 2003, Olga B. Wise, review of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, p. 91; December 1, 2006, Bob Ivey, review of The Story of French, p. 125.

New Statesman, November 29, 2004, Celia Brayfield, review of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong, p. 42.

New York Times, November 29, 2006, William Grimes, "The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It."

Publishers Weekly, September 18, 2006, review of The Story of French, p. 47.

ONLINE

French Journal (Web log), http://frenchjournal.typepad.com/ (February 12, 2007), "Jean-Benoît Nadeau and The Story of French: An (Exclusive!) Interview."

Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow Web page,http://www.nadeaubarlow.com (April 11, 2007), author biography.

Montreal Mirror,http://www.montrealmirror.com/ (April 11, 2007), Chris Barry, "Gaul-ing Behaviour: The Sometimes Irritating, Often Perplexing French Make for an Interesting Study by Two Montreal Journalist-Authors."

Reason Online,http://www.reason.com/ (April 11, 2007), Nick Gillespie, "The Language of Empire: How French Conquered—and Then Lost—the World."