Guy de Maupassant

Born

August 5, 1850

Died

July 6, 1893 (aged 42)

Known as

short story writer, playwright, journalist, novelist, writer, poet

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

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