Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
"Assouline has sketched a portrait of Hergé that is as clean and concise as one of the man's own drawings."--Financial Times"Assouline handles his difficult subject with objectivity and occasional distaste. He has interviewed Remi's closest surviving associates, including his wives, and is an expert on the stories and Remi's many later revisions. It is hard to imagine the job being better done."--The Sunday Times(London)"Assouline highlights yet again that all-too-common divide between the flawed private man and the admirable creative genius. ... [T]hose fascinated by the strange lives of creative geniuses may want to read Assouline's fine, if somewhat disillusioning, biography."--Michael Dirda,Washington Post"Assouline ... serviceably captures the major events of Hergé's life."--Bookforum"Assouline will inform and edify America's Tintin devotees."--San Francisco Chronicle"[A] scrupulous but stolid biography."--New York Times Book Review"Mr. Assouline, a journalist and film producer...is generally judicious and fair, determined to make his subject sympathetic."--New York Times"[A] well-written biography ... Assouline, a journalist, makes the best of the grey-all-over Georges Remi by exploring the contrasts between his life and the colorful figures he invented, Tintin and Hergé."--The New Republic"Assouline is the highly-regarded biographer of Georges Simenon and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and his penetrating study,Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin, will add to a growing international reputation."--Taki's Magazine