French critic and novelist. The greatest burden for Claude Mauriac (mawr-yahk) in becoming a highly successful literary critic and novelist was having to labor under the enormous reputation of his renowned father, the French novelist and Nobel laureate François Mauriac, who was the leading Roman Catholic novelist and French spokesman for conservative causes of the early twentieth century. Claude Mauriac was brought up in a home of wealth, fame, and privilege in the exclusive Passy section of... więcej

Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2022. 2p.