Jean-Pierre Martin is the author of essays on Orwell and Queneau. He is also the biographer of Henri Michaux. He has written twenty books including Le livre des hontes (Seuil, 2006) for which he received the Grand Prix de la critique, Éloge de l’apostat (Seuil, 2010) and La curiosité (Autrement, 2019). He lives in Ardèche (France).
