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

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 Literature