Letters On Art And Literature

New York: Philosophical Library, 1953.

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Francois Mauriac
birth name: Francois Mauriac
born: 10/11/1885
died: 9/1/1970
nationality: France

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Biography

Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and journalist, winner in 1952 of the Nobel Prize for Literature; he belonged to the lineage of French Roman Catholic writers who examined the ugly realities of modern life in the light of eternity. At the heart of every one of his works Mauriac placed a soul grappling with the problems of sin, grace, and salvation. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore