Andre Gide (1869 – 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide was brought up in isolated conditions in Normandy and became a prolific writer at an early age. The author of more than fifty books at the time of his death, he is known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, although his writings spanned many genres including literary critic, letter writer, essayist, and occasional dramatist and translator. In 1908 Gide helped found the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Francaise (The New French Review).

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