Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Several of his books were best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
- Occupation
- writer, poet, novelist, librarian
- Position held
- president of the French PEN Club, seat 38 of the Académie française
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- April 16, 1844, 1844
- Died
- October 12, 1924, 1924
