Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (born 1903)

Marguerite Yourcenar

French novelist and essayist (1903–1987)

Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.