Bill Buford

Bill Buford is the author of Among the Thugs, Heat, and the forthcoming Dirt, the story of dragging his loving and trusting family to Lyon for five years in order for him to become a French cook. From 1995, until he left for France, in 2008, Buford was at the New Yorker, first as Literary and Fiction Editor and then as a staff writer. He lived in England for eighteen years and revived the literary magazine Granta. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and now lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their French-speaking sons, George and Frederick.