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At thirty, Daniel de Roulet was making a first round of the United States in a tourist. He has continued to go back since, to browse them in Chevrolet (“car invented by a Swiss”, he specifies). His first job as a computer scientist had led him to be trained at MIT in Cambridge, in the late 1980s, on artificial intelligence. Become a novelist, he was inspired by the United States in his books, whether The blue line (Threshold), on the New York marathon, written after six months spent in Manhattan, at the story for the youth dedicated to his son Jules in Americapassing through his American chronicles Documenting the Bush era, or a novel inspired by Malcolm X …
Committed to the left, he has always sought to understand this country, beyond primary anti-Americanism, cultivating many friendships there. He has fun that his best -selling book in the USA is the translation of Ten small anarchists (Buchet-Chastel), returning to the visit of the Russian revolutionary Bakounine in Saint-Imier, in the 19th century …
