Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer.[1]
The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky[1] in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943[2] until 1956.[1] Desanti was a correspondent for L'Humanité in the years following World War II.[1] She also taught university in the United States.[2]
Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti;[1] he died in 2002.[3]
She died in Paris in 2011.[1]
