How to Live

How to Live or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer is a book by Sarah Bakewell, first published by Chatto & Windus in 2010, and by Other Press on September 20, 2011. It is about the life of the 16th-century French nobleman, wine grower, philosopher, and essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. In it, Bakewell “roughly maps out Montaigne’s life against the questions he raises along the way,” drawing the answers to these questions from his Essays.