Biography

Anouk Markovits grew up in France. She attended a religious seminary in England instead of high school. After she left home at the age of nineteen to avoid an arranged marriage, she attended Columbia University. She has a Master of Architecture from Harvard and a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell. She has worked as an architect and as a set designer on major films including The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Her first novel, Pur Coton, was written in French. I Am Forbidden is her English-language debut. She lives in New York.