French author (1885–1967)
A French writer who spent eight decades under a pen name, turning a wartime nom de plume into a permanent literary identity that outlasted the man born Émile Herzog.
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog was born on 26 July 1885. At some point he adopted the pen name André Maurois and made it his public face. He wrote under that name for the better part of the twentieth century, building a body of work that carried him through two world wars and into the postwar era. He died on 9 October 1967, having lived 82 years — nearly all of them as someone else on the page.
Sourced, dated quotes from André Maurois
What shall we know of our death? Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead.
To interest a Frenchman in a boxing match you must tell him that his national honor is at stake.
The true sporting spirit has always something religious about it.
We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
It is unprecedented...for the men who made a revolution to remain in power after it is over. Yet one still finds revolutionaries: that proves how badly history is taught.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Similar profiles worth watching
France
.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg?width=1200)
