The son of a bookseller, France decided on a writing career very early. His first publications were of poetry and his first collection of short stories, Jocaste et le chat maigre, appeared in 1879. His first novel, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, was published in 1881 and was very successful. Over the next few years he published Le Livre de mon ami (1885), Thais (1894), The Red Lily (1894) and The Opinions of Jerome Coignard (1893). After 1897, France's work began to take on a social bearing with the publication of L'Orme du Mail (1897), Le Mannequin d'osier (1897), L'Anneau d'amethyste (1899), M. Bergeret a Paris (1901), Penguin Island (1908) and La Revolte des anges (1914), among others. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1921. |
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