Francois Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.

- Therese Desqueyroux 1927 novel marriage, repression, isolation, despair en

- Proust's Way 1950 non-fiction letters en