"Albert Fathi is professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Francois Laudenbach is professor emeritus at the University of Nantes. Valentin Poenaru is professor emeritus at the Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay. Djun Kim is a Skylight research associate in mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Dan Margalit is assistant professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of ""A Primer on Mapping Class Groups"" (Princeton)."
"""[T]he translation is a most welcome addition for those who use FLP as a reference... It is the reviewer's hope that this new version will also introduce Thurston's brilliant insights and imagination to even wider audiences and help inspire the present and future generations to pick up where he left off.""--Dan Margalit, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society"