​Edward Baron Turk

Edward Baron Turk is a professor emeritus of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books on the performing arts include Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard University Press), Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald (University of California Press), and French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon (University of Iowa Press). He resides in New York City; Paris; and Provincetown, Massachusetts.