Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958)

Roger Martin du Gard was born on March 23, 1881 in France. He was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was trained as a paleographer and archivist. His major work was The Thibaults, a multi-volume work that follows the fortunes of the two brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic bourgeois family to the end of the First World War. Martin du Gard wrote several other novels, including Jean Barois, which was set against the historical context of the Dreyfus Affair. During the Second World War, he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort) that remained unfinished at his death; it was posthumously published in 1983. His other works include plays and a memoir of André Gide, a longtime friend. Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, France. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort… (mais)