Sara Houghteling

World War II, Paris, and The Art World

Submitted by Barbara on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 23:20

I love historical fiction. Sara Houghteling’s sweeping debut novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, draws on the real-life stories of France’s pre-eminent art-dealing familes and the forgotten biography of the only French woman to work as a double agent inside the Nazis’ looted art stronghold.