Andre Gide 1869-1951
For me, Andre Gide cannot be capsulized into a brief biographical statement. In lieu of this I will offer a list of critical biographies about him that the reader may wish to find. Among these I consider Portrait of Andre Gide, by Justin O'Brien to be the best. I own each of the texts listed below as well as many additional ones. If you are unable to find these in through your own library or bookstore and need information for research purposes, please email me.
In addition to this list please see the remembrances section for writing on Gide by his contemporaries.
selected biographies
and critical texts
Andre Gide by Albert Guerard (Harvard University Press, 1951)
Andre Gide: A Critical Biography by George D. Painter (Atheneum, 1968)
Andre Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan (Harvard University Press, 1999)
Andre Gide: Ethic of the Artist by D.L. Thomas (Secker & Warburg, 1950)
Andre Gide: Evolution of an Aesthetic by Vino Rossi (Rutgers University Press, 1967)
Andre Gide: His Life and Art by Wallace Fowlie (Macmillan Company, 1965)
Andre Gide: His Life and His Work by Leon Pierre-Quint (Knopf, 1934)
Correspondance Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide edited John Russell (Secker & Warburg, 1952)
Gide by Germaine Bree (Rutgers University Press, 1963)
Gide and the Hound of Heaven by Harold March (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952)
Portrait of Andre Gide by Justin O'Brien (Secker and Warburg, 1953)
Selected Letters of Andre Gide and Dorothy Bussy edited by Richard Tedeschi (Oxford University Press, 1983)
Self Portraits - The Gide/Valery Letters edited by Robert Mallet (University of Chicago, 1966)
Youth of Andre Gide by Jean Delay (University of Chicago, 1963)
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