​About the Authors
Eliane Kurbegov is from Strasbourg, France. She has been teaching French in high schools and universities in both Florida and Colorado throughout her career. As a high school teacher, she began consulting for the College Board: leading workshops, writing test items for the AP French exam, creating materials for AP workshop manuals, and participating in the exam and course redesign in 2011. She has scored AP exams as a reader, table leader, and question leader for over twenty years. In addition, Eliane has trained and mentored AP consultants and is currently monitoring the AP French Language and Culture Course Teacher Community. She is the author of numerous French manuals published by Barron’s and McGraw Hill, as well as the author of French for Dummies and co-author of the AP French textbook Thèmes published by Vista Higher Learning.

Ed Weiss has spent his career teaching French at both the high school and college levels in the Philadelphia area, as well as serving as World Language department chair at the secondary level. Ed has worked for the College Board for over twenty years and has served as an AP reader, table leader, and exam leader for the AP French Language and Culture exam. Ed is a national consultant for the College Board and has led Advanced Placement Summer Institutes for French teachers around the country. He has also developed workshop and online materials for the College Board. He is a three-time recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute grants and has been a presenter for ACTFL, AATF, and at the AP French reading.

About the Publisher
In the 1930s, Manuel H. Barron opened a bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. 

People from the community asked Mr. Barron about books that might be available to help their children study for the New York State Regents exams. After realizing there wasn't anything available, Mr. Barron's created his own study guides.

80 years later, Barron's has helped millions of people prepare for their next step.