Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942â1995) was a crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. In 1971 he published his first novel and went on to establish a new genre of French novel, the neo-polar. NYRB Classics publishes his Fatale, The Mad and the Bad, and Ivory Pearl.
Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated Manchetteâs Fatale, The Mad and the Bad, and Ivory Pearl, as well as Jean-Paul Clebertâs Paris Vagabond for NYRB Classics, and Yvan Alagbeâs Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures and Nicole Clavelouxâs The Green Hand and Other Stories for NYR Comics. He lives in New York City.
Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, and most recently, The Other Paris. She translated FÃĐlix FÃĐnÃĐonâs Novels in Three Lines and has written introductions to several other NYRB Classics, including Classic Crimes by William RougÂhead and Pedigree by Georges Simenon. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.