How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

“How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer” is a biography book written by Sarah Bakewell. The book tells the story of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, a French philosopher, and his life’s work. The book explores Montaigne’s bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay.