André Gide

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AG was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth century and won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.

Milestones

22 November 1869
AG , French writer, was born in Paris.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
27 February 1926
AG 's Les faux-monnayeurs appeared bearing the date of 1925: an anti-realist novel, in which a fictional character named Edouard keeps a journal detailing the progress of his own novel, also Les faux-monnayeurs.
Sanders, Todd. andregide.org.
OCLC WorldCat.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Hamon, Philippe, and Denis Roger-Vasselin, editors. Le Robert des grands écrivains de langue française. Dictionaires Le Robert, 2000.
May 1939
AG 's Journal 1889-1939 was published in Paris; this book became a French literary landmark.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
19 February 1951
French writer AG died in Paris.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Biography

Birth

22 November 1869
AG , French writer, was born in Paris.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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