Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

male, deceased (1880)
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially...
Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

male, deceased (1893)
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 - 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern s...

Théophile Gautier

male, deceased (1872)
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, G...
Francis Steegmuller

Francis Steegmuller

male, deceased (1994)
Francis Steegmuller (1906 - 1994) was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar. He...

José Maria Eça de Queiroz

male, deceased (1900)
José Maria de Eça de Queirós or de Queiroz (November 25, 1845 - August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the...

Robert Baldick

male
Robert Baldick (1927-1972) was a Fellow of Pembroke College Oxford, a French scholar, writer, editor of the Penguin classics and a well-known...
Enid Starkie

Enid Starkie

female, deceased (1970)
Enid Mary Starkie (born Killiney, Co Dublin, 1897-1970), was an Irish literary critic, known for her biographical works on French poets. She was a...
Theodor Reik

Theodor Reik

male, deceased (1969)
Theodor Reik (1888-1969) was a prominent psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria. Reik received a PhD degree...
Jacques Sernas

Jacques Sernas

male, 84 years old
Jacques Sernas, sometimes billed as Jack Sernas, born 30 July 1925, in Kaunas, Lithuania is a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international...

Leopoldo Alas Y Ureña

male, deceased (1901)
Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as "Clarín" was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. He died in Oviedo. Alas spent his childhood living in...