Sanaë Lemoine on the Secret That Changed Her Family

Gieves Anderson

“My father had asked me to not tell anyone. Especially my mother.”

Sanaë Lemoine is the author of the novel The Margot Affair, a New York Times editor’s pick. She received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Since then, she has worked as a recipe writer and editor, and most recently, as a cookbook editor at Phaidon Press and Martha Stewart Books.