Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar, born Marguerite de Crayencour, was born in Brussels on 8 June 1903, to a Belgian mother and a French father, who brought her up with tutors, without sending her to school. She published her first books at her own expense, travelled widely, then left in 1939 for the United States at the invitation of Grace Frick, who became the translator of her work into English. An American from 1947, she lived from 1950 on Mount Desert Island, in Maine. Elected in 1980, she was the first woman in the Académie française. She died in Bar Harbor on 17 December 1987.

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• NovelMemoirs of HadrianMémoires d'HadrienMarguerite Yourcenar · 1951Literature