Danielle Postel-Vinay

Danielle Postel-Vinay is the French alter ego of the New York Times bestselling author Danielle Trussoni, whose fiction has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Prix Bête Noir des Libraires 2025, and has been translated into over thirty languages.  

Danielle has been a Francophile since her first trip to France when she was sixteen. She owned a house in the South of France and lived there full-time from 2009 to 2013, when she began studying wine seriously, going to vineyards, and taking wine courses with sommeliers. Her passion for wine has followed her stateside—she took sommelier classes with Master Sommelier Laura Maniec in New York City. She eventually married a Frenchman and spends part of every year with her family in Paris.