Writer, born in Paris. He was author of over 50 volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, criticism, biography, belles letters, and translations. Among his best-known works are Les Nourritures terrestres (1897, Fruits of the Earth) and Les Faux Monnayeurs (1926, The Counterfeiters), his translations of Oedipus and Hamlet, and his Journal. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.