Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard was born on 23 March 1881 in France. He built a career as a novelist through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century, writing in a country and era thick with literary competition. In 1937 the Swedish Academy gave him the Nobel Prize in Literature, the highest stamp a writer can receive. He continued working into the postwar years. He died on 22 August 1958.