Keith Abbott

Edmond About

(Dieuze: 14 February 1828 - Paris: 16 January 1885)

Laure Junot d' Abrantès

(born November 6, 1784 in Montpellier and died June 7, 1838 in Paris)

Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes, born Laure Adelaïde Constance Permon.

Louise Ackermann

Louis-Victorine Choquet

(Paris: 30 November 1813 - Nice: 2 August 1890)

Arthur Adamov

(Kislovodsk: 23 August 1908 - Paris: 15 March 1970)

Janine Aeply

Marie,d'Agoult

Daniel Stern, Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny

(Frankfurt am Main: 31 December 1805 - Paris: 5 March 1876)

Elder Berte

Jean Ajalbert

(born on 10 June 1863 in Levallois-Perret, and died on 14 January 1947 in Cahors)

Henri Alain-Fournier

Henri-Alban Fournier

(Born October 3, 1886 in La Chapelle-d'Angillon in the Cher and killed in action on September 22, 1914 in Saint-Remy-la-Calonne)

Henri-Alban Fournier, born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, spent part of his childhood in Epineuil-le-Fleuriel where his parents were teachers. At the age of twelve, he entered the Lycée Voltaire in Paris, then the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux. After his military service, he gave up the idea of entering the Ecole Normale, and returned, thanks to Charle Morice, to Paris-Journal and wrote a literary column for several years. He also gives poems, essays and short stories to several magazines. But Alain-Fournier devotes most of his time to writing a novel, the Great Meaulnes. First published in serial form, in La NRF, it was edited in volume, by Emile-Paul Frères, in September 1913. It was an immediate success and just missed out on the Goncourt prize. In 1914, Alain-Fournier begins a new novel, Northern Dove and a play. But the war stops him. He is mobilized on August 2nd and joins the 288th infantry regiment which takes part in the Battle of the Marne. Sent on reconnaissance near Saint-Remy, he crossed the Calonne trench with his company and fell into an ambush. He was killed instantly. He was 28 years old.

Guillot Laure Albin

(Paris: 14 February 1879 - Nogent-sur-Marne: 22 February 1962)

Arsene Alexander

Alphonse Allais

(Honfleur: 20 October 1854 - Paris: 28 October 1905)

Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado de Faria

(Itabuna, State of Bahia: 10 August 1912 - Salvador, State of Bahia: 6 August 2001)

Brazilian writer of the modernist school.

Yves-Marie André

(born in Châteaulin, Brittany, France, on 22 May 1675 and died in Caen, Calvados, France, on 26 February 1764)

French Jesuit priest, philosopher and writer.

Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

(Bordeaux: 23 June 1910 - Lausanne: 3 October 1987)

Duke of Antin

Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis d'Antin, de Gondrin et de Montespan (1701), then 1st Duke d'Antin

( Paris : 5 September 1665 - 2 November 1736)

André Antoine

(Limoge : 31 January 1858 - Pouliguen : 19 October 1943)

Guillaume Apollinaire

William Albert Vladimir Alexander Apollinaire of Kostrowitzky

(born Polish subject of the Russian Empire, August 26, 1880 in Rome and died in Paris on November 9, 1918).

Louis Aragon

(Paris: October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982)

Paul Arène

(born June 26, 1843 in Sisteron and died December 17, 1896 in Antibes)

Pierre Arétin

Pietro Aretino - Peter the Aretinist

(Arezzo: 20 April 1492 - Venice: 21 October 1556)

Marcel Arland

(Varennes-sur-Amance - Haute-Marne: 5 July 1899; Saint-Sauveur-sur-École - Seine-et-Marne: 12 January 1986)

Antonin Artaud

(born in Marseille on 4 September 1896 and died in Ivry-sur-Seine on 4 March 1948)

Georges Athénas

Marius-Ary Leblond

(Saint-Denis de La Réunion : 26 February 1877 - Paris: 8 May 1953)

Margaret Atwood

(Ottawa: 18 November 1939)

Louis Aubert

(1876-1965)

Marie-Jeanne d' Aumale

(Vergies , Somme : 07 1683 - Soissons, Aisne : 12-1756)
Coming from a noble family from Picardy. Admitted to the house of education of Saint-Cyr, she became in 1705 the secretary of Mrs de Maintenon.

Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster

(Newark, New Jersey, USA: February 3, 1947)

Multiple authors

Jean Autin

(1921 – 1991)

Charles Autrand

(born in the Comtat Venaissin1 in 1918 and died in Paris in 1976)

Raymond AUZIAS-TURENNE

(1861-1940)

Marcel Ayme

(Joigny: 29 March 1902 - the 18ᵉ arrondissement of Paris: 14 October 1967)