biography
pronunciation:
[dü boh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1939)
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| biography:
| Writer and scholar, born in France. The son of an English mother, he studied at Oxford, Berlin, and Florence, and became a literary agent. A convert to Catholicism in 1927, he founded the review Vigile in 1930 with François Mauriac, about whom he wrote a sympathetic book. His correspondence with André Gide was published as Le Dialogue avec André Gide (1929, 2nd edn 1950). |
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