Category: Novelists

Champfleury

(1821–1889) Jules François Félix Husson Works: • Les chats (1869) • Richard Wagner (1860) Champfleury in Art: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries 1862 National Gallery, London   Born September 17 1821…

Bruce Robinson

(1946) Filmography as Actor: Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey     L’histoire d’Adèle H 1975 Director: François Truffaut Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson   Born May 2 1946 London (England) Occupation Actor Film director Occupation Novelist Screenwriter…

Mark Twain

(1835–1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens Works: • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) • A Horse’s Tale (1907) • A Tramp Abroad (1880) • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) • Complete Letters (1853-1910) • Life on the Mississippi (1883) • Speeches (English) • The Adventures of Tom…

Louis Edmond Duranty

(1833–1880) Louis Émile Edmond Duranty Duranty in Art: Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Hommage à Delacroix 1864 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty 1879 Burrell Collection, Glasgow     Born June 5 1833 Paris (France) Died April 9 1880 Paris…

William Faulkner

(1897–1962) William Cuthbert Faulkner Works: • Collected Stories of William Faulkner (English) • Early Prose and Poetry (English) • The Sound and the Fury (1929) Quotes: • William Faulkner: Quotations Born September 25 1897 New Albany, MS (USA) Died July 6 1962 Byhalia, MS…

Henry James

(1843–1916) Henry James, OM Works: • A Bundle of Letters (English) • A Little Tour in France (English) • A London Life, and Other Tales (English) • A Passionate Pilgrim (English) • A Small Boy and Others (English) • An International Episode…

Guy de Maupassant

(1850–1893) Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant Works: ◊ A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales (English) ◊ Bel Ami (English) • Boule de Suif (French) • Clair de Lune (French) • Contes de la Becasse (French) • Contes du jour et de la nuit…

Gustave Flaubert

(1821–1880) Works: • Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) ◊ Bouvard and Pécuchet (English) • Dictionnaire des idées reçues (1913) ◊ Herodias (English) ◊ Ηρωδιάς (Greek) • La tentation de Saint Antoine (1848) ◊ The Temptation of St. Antony (English) • Madame Bovary (1857) • Madame Bovary:…

Honoré de Balzac

(1799–1850) Honoré de Balzac, né Honoré Balzac Works: ◊ A Daughter of Eve (English) ◊ A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (English) ◊ A Drama on the Seashore (English) ◊ A Man of Business (English) ◊ A Passion in the Desert (English) ◊ A Prince of Bohemia…

Henry Fielding

(1707–1754) Works: • A Journey from This World to the Next (1749) • Amelia (1751) • An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741) • Joseph Andrews, Vol. I (1742) • Joseph Andrews, Vol. II (1742) • The History of the Life of the Late…