Jean-Benoît Nadeau is a Canadian writer, journalist and leading explicator of French customs. His books include The Bonjour Effect and Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong, both cowritten with his wife, Julie Barlow. During his decades-long journalism career, he published more than 1,000 articles and columns for publications including L’actualité, The New York Times, The Toronto Star and The Wall Street Journal. His ICWA fellowship in France from 1999 to 2001 focused on the response of the French to globalization issues. In 2007, he won the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction.