Thomas Piketty author biography, plus links to books by Thomas Piketty.

Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics, and codirector of the World Inequality Lab. He is the author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), as well as Capital and Ideology (2020) and A Brief History of Equality (2022).

Willard Wood grew up in France and has translated more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction from the French. He has won the Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. His recent translations include Camille de Toledo's Theseus, His New Life (Other Press 2023) and Patrick Boucheron's Trace and Aura (Other Press 2022). He lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.

This biography was last updated on 09/10/2024.

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