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Andre Gide

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Profession
Autobiographer
Died
Feb 19, 1951
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
France
About
French writer of fiction and autobiography who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. His most famous work is The Immoralist, a book that was unique in its time for its inclusion of homosexual themes. In addition to many novels, he also published various plays throughout his career. 
Family
He began to recognize and accept his homosexual orientation when he was in his early twenties, following an unconsummated marriage with his cousin, Madeleine Rondeaux. Surprisingly, in 1923, he fathered a daughter through a brief sexual relationship with a woman.

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