About Alain
Bio
I'm a writer of seven non-fiction books, which can all be found at www.alaindebotton.com. The most well known of these include How Proust can change your Life and The Consolations of Philosophy. I have also made a number of television documentary and recently helped to found The School of Life: www.theschooloflife.com - and an architectural organisation called www.living-architecture.co.uk - which asks the world's best architects to build holiday homes for rent around the UK>
I'm passionate about
Literature, education, architecture, wisdom and beauty.
The TED story
I did a talk at TED Global in Oxford in 2009. It changed my life, bringing me into contact with so many valuable and interesting people.