Francis Steegmuller (1906 - 1994) was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar. He contributed numerous short stories and articles to The New Yorker and also wrote under the pseudonyms of Byron Steel and David Keith. He was the winner of two National Book Awards and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. His first wife was Beatrice Stein, a painter who was a pupil and frie...
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Francis Steegmuller (1906 - 1994) was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar. He contributed numerous short stories and articles to The New Yorker and also wrote under the pseudonyms of Byron Steel and David Keith. He was the winner of two National Book Awards and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. His first wife was Beatrice Stein, a painter who was a pupil and friend of Jacques Villon; he married the writer Shirley Hazzard in 1963. His collected papers are held at two universities: at Yale University, the James Jackson Jarves (1818-1888) Papers and the Francis Steegmuller Collection for Jacques Villon; at Columbia University, the Francis Steegmuller Papers 1877-1979.
Columbia University A.B., 1927; A.M., 1927.
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