France, Anatole

Anatole France (1844 - 1924), pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault, was a French author and son of a Paris book seller. Best known for his novelThe Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, he was appointed as a librarian for the French Senate in 1876. France was regarded as the ideal French man of letters and was elected to the Académie Française in 1896 and also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Penquin Island (1908) is the major work of the later period of his life. ;

Anatole France was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, he wrote upon most unique themes that covered religious and social aspects of his era. ;