Elaine Sciolino

Elaine F. Sciolino
Born	Buffalo, New York
Occupation(s)	Journalist, author
Notable credit(s)	The New York Times; The Outlaw State, Persian Mirrors, La Seduction, "The Only Street in Paris," The Seine (books)
Spouse	Andrew R. Plump
Children	2
Website	www.elainesciolino.com
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Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times. Her forthcoming book, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, will be published in 2025 by W.W. Norton & Company.

Sciolino's book The Seine: The River That Made Paris was published in 2019. Edmund White of The New York Times called Sciolino "a graceful, companionable writer, someone who speaks about France in the most enjoyably American way."^[1]" David A. Bell, Professor of History at Princeton University, said, "Sciolino writes with the authority of a historian, the sleuthing skills of a journalist, and the voice of a storyteller eager to recount the tales of those who have been touched by the Seine."^[2]

Her previous book, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs, published in 2015, was a New York Times best seller. Kate Betts of The New York Times wrote that "she has Paris at her feet;^[3]" the Chicago Tribune called her "a storyteller at heart.”^[4]

• The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991. (hardcover) ASIN: B000AO4E3U (trade paperback) ISBN 0-471-54299-7 ISBN 978-0471542995. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
• Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. New York: The Free Press, 2000. (Reissued edition, 2005) ISBN 0-7432-8479-8 ISBN 978-0743284790
• La Séduction: How the French Play the Game of Life. New York: Times Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8050-9115-1, ISBN 0-8050-9115-7
• The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. ISBN 978-0393242379, ISBN 0393242374
• La Dernière Rue de Paris : Enquête sur la rue des Martyrs. Exils, 2016. ISBN 9782912969774
• The Seine : the River that made Paris W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. ISBN 9780393609356

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• https://elainesciolino.com/about
• NPR
  • Weekend Edition interview with Sciolino on the French reaction to the Strauss-Kahn verdict, June 13, 2013.