Luc Lang is an award-winning French author of many works, including Voyage sur la ligne d¿horizon, Furies, and Les Indiens. He has also published the startling autobiographical work 11 septembre mon amour. He teaches aesthetics at the ¿ole Nationale Sup¿eure des Beaux Arts de Paris et Cergy. ¿Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated noir or noirish fiction by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Thierry Jonquet, and, with Alyson Waters, Yasmina Khadra¿s Cousin K (Nebraska, 2013). Born in Manchester, England, he is a longtime resident of New York City.