Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels and spent much of her life as a self-imposed exile, eventually settling on Mount Desert Island in Maine. In 1980, she became the first woman elected to the Académie française in its 345-year history—a recognition of her status as one of the great prose stylists of the French language. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Memoirs of Hadrian.