Background
Olivier Todd was born on June 19, 1929, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France. He is a son of Julius Oblatt Todd, an architect, and Dorothy Todd (some sources say Helen).
Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Olivier Todd attended the Sorbonne University.
Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Olivier Todd attended the Corpus Christi College.
(A French journalist recounts his experience of the fall o...)
A French journalist recounts his experience of the fall of Saigon, taking a close, historical look at the four months leading up to it on human, military, diplomatic, and political levels.
https://www.amazon.com/Cruel-April-Saigon-English-French/dp/0393027872/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly research...)
In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers. Todd shows us a Camus who struggled all his life with irreconcilable conflicts — between his loyalty to family and his passionate nature, between the call to political action and the integrity to his art, between his support of the native Algerians and his identification with the forgotten people, the poor whites. A very private man, Camus could be charming and prickly, sincere and theatrical, genuinely humble, yet full of great ambition.
https://www.amazon.com/Albert-Camus-Life-Olivier-Todd/dp/0679428550/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Writer, publisher, war hero, French government minister, ...)
Writer, publisher, war hero, French government minister, André Malraux was renowned as a Renaissance man of the twentieth century. Now, Olivier Todd – author of the acclaimed biography Albert Camus – gives us this life, in which fact competes dramatically with his subject’s previously little-known mythomania. We see the adventurous young Malraux move from 1920s literary Paris to colonial Cambodia, Cochin China, and Spain in its civil war. Todd charts the thrilling exploits that would inspire such novels as Man’s Fate, but, just as fascinating, he also traces Malraux’s lifelong pattern of lies: claiming friendship with Mao, he was called to tutor Nixon, despite having met the Great Helmsman only once; a minor injury becomes in recollections a near-mortal battlefield wound; stories of heroism in the French Resistance omit to mention that Malraux joined up just a few weeks before the Allied landings. With meticulous research, Todd separates myth from reality to throw light on a brilliant con man who would become a national hero, but he also lets us see Malraux’s genuine achievements as both writer and man of action. His real life and the one he embroidered come together in this superb biography to reveal how Malraux, the protean genius, became his own greatest character.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XU8DME/?tag=2022091-20
2001
Olivier Todd was born on June 19, 1929, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France. He is a son of Julius Oblatt Todd, an architect, and Dorothy Todd (some sources say Helen).
Olivier Todd attended Sorbonne University and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Olivier Todd was a teacher at the Lycee International du Shape from 1956 to 1962. From 1962 to 1964 he was a university assistant at the University of Saint-Cloud. From 1964 to 1969 Todd served as a reporter at the Nouvel Observateur (now L’Obs), an assistant editor from 1970 to 1977. From 1964 to 1969 he was a reporter at BBC. From 1969 to 1970 Olivier was an editor of the TV Programme Panorama. He was a managing editor and columnist at the L’Express until 1981.
(In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly research...)
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1987(Writer, publisher, war hero, French government minister, ...)
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1998In 1948 Olivier Todd married Anne-Marie Nizan. They divorced. In 1982 he married France Huser, a journalist. From the first marriage has two children: Emmanuel and Camille. He has a son, Samuel, with Chantal Charpentier. From his second marriage, he has a daughter, Aurelia.