Born in Lyon, France, Annick Stevenson is an international journalist, having spent more than twenty years with the United Nations, author of the portrait of Jean Giono's long-time mistress and muse, Blanche Meyer et Jean Giono, and co-author of a book in memory of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Bagdad, Sergio Vieira de Mello: An Exceptional Man. She has written for a large number of newspapers and magazines throughout her career and has also translated or co-translated several works. She is currently at work on two additional UN-related projects: the translation of the portrait of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan written by his long-standing spokesperson, Fred Eckhart, and a book to be published together with a documentary on the United Nations by filmmaker Romuald Sicora in the fall of 2008.