bio notes:
born: 1/28/1873
died: 8/3/1954
born as: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Outstanding French writer of the first half of the 20th century, whose novels, largely concenred with the pleasures and pains of love, are remarkable for their exact sensory evocation of sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and colors. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature