Roger Martin Du Gard and Maumort

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault, a multivolume novel, were translated into English and read widely. Today, this close friend of André Gide, Albert Camus, and André Malraux is...

In this rigorously researched and well-written volume, Benjamin Franklin Martin sheds light on the life and creative genius of Roger Martin du Gard, a figure who, despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, has become somewhat marginalized in French literary history.

Benjamin Franklin Martin's literary biography of Roger Martin du Gard, who won the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature, is an impressive achievement.

Martin weaves throughout his subject's journal, correspondence, and works, and brings to light (and life) the complexity that lurked behind the public persona of the world-renowned 1937 recipient of the Nobel Prize. Highly recommended.

Benjamin Franklin Martin is the Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University. He is the author of six previous books, among them, The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque and Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War (NIU Press, 2013). He has been a consulting scholar to the Jewish Museum in New York for the celebrated exhibition "The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth and Justice," and a featured contributor to documentaries by The History Channel.