biography
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Maurois, André
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pseudonym of Emile Herzog
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pronunciation:
[mohrwah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1967)
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| biography:
| Writer and biographer, born in Elbeuf, NW France. During World War 1 he was a liaison officer with the British army, and began his literary career with a book of shrewd and affectionate observation of British character, Les Silences du Colonel Bramble (1918, The Silences of Colonel Bramble). His many biographies include studies of Shelley (1923), Disraeli (1927), Voltaire (1935), and Proust (1949). |
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