André Malraux

André Malraux (1901–1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and statesman whose life read like one of his own novels. Born in Paris, he abandoned his formal education to pursue adventure—traveling to Indochina in the 1920s, where he was arrested for stealing Khmer sculptures, then involving himself in anticolonial politics. He witnessed the Chinese revolution firsthand and fought in the Spanish Civil War as a squadron leader for the Republican air force. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance and commanded a brigade during the liberation of France. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Man's Fate.