Caroline Weber
Author and French literature professor
Caroline Weber is an American author who teaches French and comparative literature at Barnard College, part of Columbia University. She wrote Queen of Fashion, a book on Marie Antoinette's clothes and the Revolution.
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American Born 1969
About Caroline Weber
Caroline Weber (born 1969) is an American author and a professor at Barnard College, part of Columbia University, where she works in French and comparative literature. Her focus is French literature, history and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries. She previously held teaching posts at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Terror & Its Discontents (2003) and Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (2006). Proust's Duchess (2018) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2019, in the Biography or Autobiography category. Weber has written for newspapers and fashion magazines as well as scholarly publications, with work in Vogue, Bookforum, the Washington Post and the New York Times. She says she wants her writing to be engaging and easy for readers to approach.