Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times. Her forthcoming book, Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, will be published in 2025 by W.W. Norton & Company.

Books

Sciolino's book The Seine: The River That Made Paris was published in 2019. Edmund White of The New York Times called Sciolino "a graceful, companionable writer, someone who speaks about France in the most enjoyably American way." " David A. Bell, Professor of History at Princeton University, said, "Sciolino writes with the authority of a historian, the sleuthing skills of a journalist, and the voice of a storyteller eager to recount the tales of those who have been touched by the Seine." Her previous book, The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs, published in 2015, was a New York Times best seller. Kate Betts of The New York Times wrote that "she has Paris at her feet; " the Chicago Tribune called her "a storyteller at heart.”