Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) was born Françoise Quoirez in Cajarc, France, to a prosperous bourgeois family. She wrote Bonjour Tristesse in a matter of weeks while still a teenager, and its publication in 1954 made her an overnight celebrity and literary sensation. The novel sold nearly a million copies in its first year. She adopted her pen name from a character in Proust and became a fixture of Parisian literary and social life—fast cars, gambling, and a lifestyle that mirrored the hedonism of her fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Bonjour Tristesse.