Works in Biographical and Historical Context Protection, and civil rights, as well as a writer whose scholarship, command of her craft, and far-ranging knowledge in many fields were very striking, she occupies a privileged place in twentieth-century letters. A woman who worked for conservationist and ecological causes, consumer Although she frequently ignored or defied literary styles, the advice of critics, and the conventions of Parisian literary life, Yourcenar managed to reach and appeal to a wide audience in France and throughout the world. Her writings treat the dawn of time and the future the physical and the spiritual worlds characters ranging from peasants to emperors, courtesans to Hindu gods nature and civilizations and the arts and religion. A self-taught scholar, novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator, widely traveled and well read, Yourcenar brought a broadly based sensibility to her literary work.
Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman elected to the prestigious Académie française. GENRE: Drama, fiction, poetry, nonfiction DIED: 1987, Mount Desert Island, Maine, United States
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