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'André Maurois', or 'Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog', (
July 26,
1885 –
October 9,
1967) was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a
pen name that became his legal name in
1947.
He was born in
Elbeuf and educated in
Rouen, both in
Normandy.
During
World War I he joined the
French army and he served as an interpreter and later a liaison officer in the British army. His first novel ''Les silences du colonel Bramble'' was a witty but socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. It was translated and also became popular in the
United Kingdom and other
English speaking countries as ''The Silence of Colonel Bramble''. Many of his other works have been translated in English, because they often dealt with British figures or topics, like his biographies of
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield,
Lord Byron or
Shelley.
He became a member of the
Académie française in
1938. During
World War II he served in the French army and the
Free French Forces.
He died in
1967 after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, and children’s books. He is buried in the
Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near
Paris.
List of works by Andre Maurois
★ ''Climats''
★ ''Lelia, ou la vie de George Sand'' (Lelia, or the life of George Sand)
★ ''Histoire d'Angleterre'' (History of England)
★ ''
Fattypuffs and Thinifers'' (
1930)
★ ''The Next Chapter: The War Against the Moon'' (
1930)
★ ''Ariel''
★ ''Byron''
★ ''Captains and Kings''
★ ''Disraeli''
★ ''Mape''
★ ''Lyautey''
★ ''The Silence of Colonel Bramble''
★ ''General Bramble''
★ ''Dickens''
★ ''Prophets and Poets''
★ ''The Thought Reading Machine''
★ ''Ricochets''
★ ''The Miracle of England''
★ ''Chateaubriand''
★ ''The Art of Living''
★ ''Tragedy in France''
★ ''I Remember, I Remember''
★ ''The Miracle of America''
★ ''Les Origines de la Guerre de 1939''
★ ''Woman Without Love''
★ ''My American Journal''
★ ''Olympio: The Turbulent Life of Victor Hugo''
★ '' To an Unknow Lady''
★ '' Prometheus: The Life of Balzac''
★ '' THE LIFE OF SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING: DISCOVERER OF PENICILIN.''
★ ''Adrienne, ou, La vie de Mme de La Fayette''
★ ''Ariel the Life of Shelley''
★ ''The world of Marcel Proust''
★ ''Titans: A Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas.''
External links
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Science Fiction works
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Amazon biography