Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer, novelist, and poet (died 1893)

Guy de Maupassant

French writer (1850–1893)

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.