Marguerite Yourcenar Modernist writer, novelist, poet, essayist
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Marguerite Yourcenar novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40. Crayencour was educated at home in French Flanders and spent much of her early life
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Marguerite Yourcenar, Author of Memoirs of Hadrian
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Yourcenar Lapham's Quarterly
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Marguerite Yourcenar, Modernist writer, novelist, poet, essayist
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Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life: 9780226735443: Savigneau, Josyane, Howard, Joan E.: Books