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André Paul Guillaume Gide and commonly known as André Paul was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anti-colonialism between the two World Wars.  He was Born on 22 November 1869, Paris, France and died on 19 February 1951, Paris, France.

He was a Novelist, essayist, dramatist. His notable works are L'immoraliste (The Immoralist)

La porte étroite (Strait Is the Gate), Les caves du Vatican (The Vatican Cellars; sometimes published in English under the title Lafcadio's Adventures), La Symphonie Pastorale (The Pastoral Symphony)

Les faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters)

Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anti-colonialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than fifty books, at the time of his death his obituary in The New York Times described him as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."[1]

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by Protestant austerity and homosexuality, respectively), which a strict and moralistic education had helped set at odds. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centers on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, including owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is shaped by the same ethos, as indicated by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR.

Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869, into a middle-class Protestant family. His father was a Paris University professor of law who died in 1880, Gide was brought up in isolated conditions in Normandy and became a prolific writer at an early age, publishing his first novel, The Notebooks of André Walter (French: Les Cahiers d'André Walter), in 1891, at the age of twenty-one.

In 1893 and 1894, Gide travelled in Northern Africa, and it was there that he came to accept his attraction to men.

- André Gide 

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