1885-1970. French novelist. His novel Le
Baiser au lepreux/A Kiss for the Leper 1922
describes the conflict of an unhappy
marriage. The irreconcilability of Christian
practice and human nature are examined in
Fleuve de feu/River of Fire 1923, Le Desert
de l'amour/The Desert of Love 1925, and
Therese Desqueyroux 1927. Nobel Prize for
Literature 1952.