Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston. His books include Nîmes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938–1944 (1994), Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue (2004), Albert Camus: Elements of a Life (2010), Boswell’s Enlightenment (2015), A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning (2013), Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment (2019), and Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (2022).