Born in Paris in 1927, Michel Vinaver published two novels in 1950 and 1951, before he started, on the recommendation of Albert Camus, a career with the shaving company Gillette France.
He stayed with Gillette for 27 years, serving as the chief executive of subsidiaries in Belgium, Italy, and France. In parallel with his business career, Vinaver started as a playwright in 1955 and never returned to the narrative form. His dramatic works include 18 plays and seven adaptations and translations, as well as theoretical and critical essays. He holds B.A. from Wesleyan University, where he first came in contact with and translated T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland.
Upon leaving Gillette, he was appointed professor of Dramatic Studies at Université Paris III and subsequently Paris VIII.
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