Subject: Authors, French -- Biography (Keywords)

Camus is among the most significant French writers of the 20th century. His novels The Plague and The Outsider have a timeless power and appeal, and his philosophical work has had an enduring influence.

This is the long-awaited biography of the world's most famous, and most prolific, survivor of the Holocaust. This first volume is more than an account of the Holocaust, it begins with a moving evocation of life in an Eastern European Jewish village.

This book includes two diaries, kept by Albert Camus on his tours to the USA in 1946 and to South America in 1949. It includes descriptions of his journeys by ship, the people he met and the landscape he travelled through.

This is a biography of one of the greatest 20th-century writers, André Gide - novelist and essayist, patron, fervent homosexual and political innocent.

In 1944, a French Air Force reconnaissance plane disappeared on a mission to the Alps. Neither the pilot, 44-year-old Antoine de St Exupery, nor the plane were ever traced. This biography looks at St Exupery - a romantic author among the daredevils of his generation.

This new book concentrates on the Marquis de Sade's loyal wife and his vindictive mother-in-law, and their complex relationship with the rakish Marquis as they dedicated themselves to protecting him and curbing him.