Mercier, Eric

Biography

Eric Mercier worked in finance for 25 years before giving it up for art and writing a thesis on figurative painting from the 1950s. A Ph.D. in art history and an exhibit curator, his first novel, Dans la peau de Buffet (Under Buffet’s Skin, Éditions Anfortas, 2018), won the debut novel prize at the Draveil Book Fair.