André Maurois

André Maurois was born in Elbeuf, France in 1885 and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille. Maurois joined the French army in WWI, serving as an interpreter and liaison officer to the British army. His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble, which recounted these wartime experiences, became immensely successful and was later translated into English as The Silence of Colonel Bramble. Maurois went on to write many other novels, biographies, science fiction stories, histories, and children’s books. Maurois served in the French army again during WWII and wrote about these experiences in his book Tragedy in France. He died in 1967.