Laurence Cossé was born in 1950, in Boulogne-Billancourt. He began his professional career as a journalist at Le Quotidien in Paris, and then began working on the public radio station France Culture, where he got to interview Andrei Tarkovsky, Jorge Luis Borges or Suzanne Lilar. Most of his novels have been published by Gallimard. His most acclaimed work to date is The Good Novel (2009), which has been translated into several languages, and which is considered one of the most accurate satires recently written about the world of bookstores and booksellers. Specialist in stories that portray the dark recesses of power, is also the author of the novels Les chambres du Sud (1981), a poetic novel, Le coin du voile (1996), winner of the Prix du Jury Jean Giono that same year, La femme du premier ministre (1998), where Cossé enters the genre of the historical novel, Le Mobilier national (2001) and, more recently, Les amandes amères (2011).