Paulina Bren

Paulina Bren is a historian and writer who teaches at Vassar College, where she holds the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities. Trained as a historian of postwar Europe, with a PhD from New York University, she first wrote about everyday life behind the Iron Curtain before turning to narrative nonfiction about women's history. Her previous book, The Barbizon (2021), was a New York Times Editors' Choice and has been translated into several languages.