An account of the author's desire to become a celebrated writer paints a portrait of Parisian literary life after World War II
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Violette Leduc was born on April 7, 1907, in Arras, France. Along with Mad In Pursuit and La Batarde, she was the author of ten other books. She has been referred to as France's greatest unknown writer, and was a contemporary of de Beauvoir, Sartre, Camus, Genet, and Cocteau.
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