Elaine Sciolino is an author and contributing writer of The New York Times,^[1] writing from France since 2002.

She grew up near Buffalo (NY) and began her career as a journalist with Newsweek magazine. In 1984 she joined the New York Times.^[2]

• The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991. (hardcover) ASIN: B000AO4E3U (trade paperback) ISBN 0-471-54299-7 ISBN 978-0471542995. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
• Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran. New York: The Free Press, 2000. (Reissued edition, 2005) ISBN 0-7432-8479-8 ISBN 978-0743284790
• La Séduction: How the French Play the Game of Life. New York: Times Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8050-9115-1, ISBN 0-8050-9115-7
• The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. ISBN 978-0393242379, ISBN 0393242374
• La Dernière Rue de Paris : Enquête sur la rue des Martyrs. Exils, 2016. ISBN 9782912969774
• The Seine : the River that made Paris W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. ISBN 9780393609356