Anouk Markovits

Anouk Markovits was raised in France in a Satmar Hasidic Jewish home and left at nineteen to avoid an arranged marriage. She holds a B.S. from Columbia University, a Master of Architecture from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell. Her first novel, Pur Coton, was published in French by Gallimard, and I Am Forbidden is her English-language debut.