Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His prize-winning memoir, The Return, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of The New York Times' top 10 books of the year. His most recent publication is My Friends (2024). Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.

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• Foreword; Acknowledgments; On Francisco Goya's The Forge by Hisham Matar; Goya's Forge by Xavier F. Salomon; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His prize-winning memoir, The Return, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of The New York Times' top 10 books of the year. His most recent publication is My Friends (2024). Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.

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• Foreword; Acknowledgments; On Francisco Goya's The Forge by Hisham Matar; Goya's Forge by Xavier F. Salomon; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His prize-winning memoir, The Return, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of The New York Times' top 10 books of the year. His most recent publication is My Friends (2024). Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.

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• Foreword; Acknowledgments; On Francisco Goya's The Forge by Hisham Matar; Goya's Forge by Xavier F. Salomon; Notes; Bibliography; Index