Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people\'s lives.
Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography..
Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment --and in search of themselves.
More than four hundred years later, Montaigne\'s honesty and charm still draw people to him.
He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before.
They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This Question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual.
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people\'s lives
