Alain De Botton
Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland
in December 1969 and educated in Switzerland and England.
He speaks French, German and English and now lives in
London.
His family originates from the Spanish peninsula, from
the small Castilian town of Boton (now vanished). They left
in 1492, along with the rest of the Sephardic Jewish
community, and eventually settled in Alexandria, Egypt,
where de Botton's father was born. De Botton has written five books. His first novel,
Essays in Love (entitled On Love in the US)
was published in November 1993. His second novel, The
Romantic Movement was published in September 1994. His
third novel, Kiss and Tell was published in
September 1995. His fourth book (and first non-fiction
title), How Proust can change your life was
published in April 1997 -- and was a bestseller in the US
and UK. His books are published in twenty languages.
His fourth book, The Consolations of Philosophy,
was published in the UK and US in April 2000. He has made a
television documentary for British television (Channel 4)
which accompanies the book. The Consolations of
Philosophy has to date sold 150,000 copies in the UK
alone. Alain de Botton's newest book, The Art of Travel,
was published in the spring of 2002. He is currently at
work on a book about social hierarchy in the West, to be
entitled 'Status Anxiety' and published in the
spring of 2004.
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Series
Books:A Week At The Airport, October 2010
Paperback
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, June 2009
Hardcover
The Architecture of Happiness, October 2006
Hardcover
How Proust Can Change Your Life, May 1998
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