Laurel Zuckerman

[2] Her most recent novel is Professor Collie's Barbarian Dreams (Fayard, 2009), a humorous story about a historian so obsessed with the past that he forgets he lives in the present.

[3] In 2016, after more than a decade of research, Zuckerman filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the return to the heirs of Paul and Alice Leffmann of an early Picasso masterpiece called "The Actor".

[4] The Leffmanns, a German Jewish family, had fled Nazi Germany after being dispossessed of their home and factory.

The judge ruled that the family had waited too long to file the case, and a petition to the Supreme Court was unsuccessful.

[5][6][7] Married, with two children, Zuckerman lives in Bry-sur-Marne, France, and is a former member of the local city council.