Author

Books by Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton is a Swiss-British author and philosopher born in 1969. He is the founder of The School of Life and has written more than a dozen books applying philosophical thinking to everyday experience — including The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Course of Love, and The Art of Travel. He approaches large subjects through close observation and essayistic argument, making him accessible to general readers and occasionally frustrating to specialists who want more rigor. The Architecture of Happiness grew from his longstanding interest in how the material world shapes emotional life.