“Ms. Charles-Roux, a decorated nurse and resistance fighter during World War II, found her way into fashion when she was hired in 1946 as a writer for a new women’s weekly, Elle. Two years later, she began writing for the French edition of Vogue, which installed her as editor in chief in 1954 … Four months after she [was fired from] Vogue, To Forget Palermo, her first novel, won the Prix Goncourt.”