Dominique Desanti

Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer.

The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943 until 1956. Desanti was a correspondent for L'Humanité in the years following World War II. She also taught university in the United States.

Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti; he died in 2002.

She died in Paris in 2011.

Biographies

 * Flora Tristan : La Femme révoltée (1972)
 * Drieu La Rochelle (1978)
 * Sacha Guitry (1982) Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française
 * Sonia Delaunay (1988)
 * Ce que le siècle m'a dit. Mémoires (1997), autobiography
 * Robert Desnos: Le roman d'une vie (1999)
 * La liberté nous aime encore (2001) with Jean-Toussaint Desanti
 * La Sainte et l'Incroyante (2007)
 * Sacha Guitry, itinéraire d'un joueur (2008) with Karin Müller
 * Les Yeux d'Elsa au siècle d'Aragon (2010) with Karin Müller

History

 * La colombe vole sans visa (1951)
 * Les Socialistes de l’Utopie (1971) Prix Thérouanne from l'Académie française
 * Les Staliniens (1975)

Novels

 * Un métier de chien (1971)
 * Les Années passion (1992)