Michèle Gerber Klein is an author and philanthropist.
Books: Michèle Gerber Klein’s definitive biography: Charles James Portrait of an Unreasonable Man, published by Rizzoli ex Libris in 2018 was widely well-received. Kirkus Reviews called it “a luscious expose of a game changing designer who revolutionized the fashion industry.” Book Forum described it as “a page turner.” The New York Times praised Klein’s “formidable knowledge of fashion” and The Financial Times who found the biography “uproarious” named it a BEST BOOK of the year.
Her new work, Surreal: The Extraordinary Life Of Gala Dalí, was published by Harper Collins on April 1, 2025, is the riveting life story of Gala, Salvador Dalí’s wife, partner, and muse. A charismatic, uninhibited; very human woman she was a force majeure in pre-war Paris’ legendary Surrealist circles where she was idolized as ‘the mother of Surrealism’. As Dalí’s great love, artistic collaborator, and the genius behind his vast fortune, Gala inflected the cultural history of the twentieth century.
Books in order of publication:
Charles James Portrait of an Unreasonable Man – 2018
Surreal: The Extraordinary Life Of Gala Dalí – 2025
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