Gide's biographer Alan Sheridan summed up Gide's life as a writer and an intellectual: Gide was, by general consent, one of the dozen most important writers of the 20th century.

Nov 18, 2025 · André Gide (born November 22, 1869, Paris, France—died February 19, 1951, Paris) was a French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature …

Until the twenties Gide was known chiefly in avant-garde and esoteric literary circles (he was one of the founders of La Nouvelle Revue Française), but in his later years he became a highly …

André Gide’s writings spanned many genres – “As a master of prose narrative, occasional dramatist and translator, literary critic, letter writer, essayist, and diarist, André Gide provided …

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide...

Diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often …

André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist …

In the 1920s and ’30s, Gide’s reports on his visits to the Congo and the USSR served as controversial and effective exposés of the abuses of both French colonialism and Soviet …

May 21, 2018 · André Gide was born in Paris on Nov. 22, 1869, to Paul Gide, a professor of law at the Sorbonne, and his wife, Juliette, both of the Protestant upper middle class.

Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centres on his continuous effort to achieve …