Edward Baron Turk

Literary and film critic Edward Baron Turk is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and professor of French and film studies and John E. Burchard Professor of the Humanities at MIT. The author of Hollywood Diva: The Biography of Jeanette MacDonald and Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema, he covers the Avignon Festival for the French Review.