Alan has traveled the world as a correspondent, covering the United Nations in New York, military regimes and revolutions across Latin America, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc. In the late 1980s he moved to Paris to become Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, later becoming its European arts correspondent. He continues to contribute writing about Paris theatre and culture and has also written several books, including "And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris," published in 2010.

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