Francis Steegmuller

Francis Steegmuller (July 3, 1906 – October 20, 1994) was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar.

Life and career

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Steegmuller graduated from Columbia University in 1927.[1] He contributed numerous short stories and articles to The New Yorker and also wrote under the pseudonyms of Byron Steel and David Keith. He won two National Book Awards—one in 1971 for Arts and Letters for his biography of Jean Cocteau (Cocteau: A Biography),[2] another in 1981 for Translation for the first volume of Flaubert's complete letters (The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857)[3]—and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. His first wife was Beatrice Stein, a painter who was a pupil and friend of Jacques Villon; she died in 1961. He married the writer Shirley Hazzard in 1963. His collected papers are held at two universities: at Yale University, the James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) Papers and the Francis Steegmuller Collection for Jacques Villon; at Columbia University, the Francis Steegmuller Papers 1877–1979.[1]

Works

Nonfiction

Translations

Novels

Short stories

Travel books

Magazine and newspaper articles

Quotations

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Francis Steegmuller Papers 1877-1979" (PDF). Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 2006-05-22.
  2. "National Book Awards – 1971". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  3. "National Book Awards – 1981". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  4. Lucy Latane Gordon. "Francis Steegmuller: A Life of Letters". Wilson Library Bulletin (January, 1992): 62-64, 136. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  5. Francis Steegmuller. "Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, No.7532". New York Times, 26 March 1980. Retrieved 2007-01-29.

Further reading

Correspondence

Biographical references

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External links

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