Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.
About Francois Mauriac
Francois Charles Mauriacwas a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Academie francaise (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion d’honneur in 1958.
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