The Barbizon - The New York Hotel That Set Women Free

Biographie de Paulina Bren

Paulina Bren is an award-winning writer and historian who teaches at Vassar College. Her book, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free (Two Roads, 2021), was a New York Times Editor's Choice and received international press coverage, with rave reviews in the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Observer and The Times. It has also been optioned by HBO for Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) to produce.
In addition, Bren is a well-known scholar of everyday life and communism behind the Iron Curtain, starting with her ground-breaking book, The Greengrocer and His TV, which cast the first line in what is now a new field of study. She lives in New York City with her husband, teenage daughter, and a schnoodle named Bobo.