Pederast, poet, and novelist who opposed fascism and advocated liberation through sensuous hedonism.
[1] Ancestors of families of both his parents were Protestant, though his mother's immediate family was Roman Catholic.
Father: Paul Gide (Sorbonne professor, d. 1880)
Mother: Juliette Rondeaux (d. May-1895)
Wife: Madeleine Rondeaux (his cousin, m. 8-Oct-1895, d. 1938)
Boyfriend: Marc Allégret (film director, travelling companion)
Boyfriend: Roger Martin du Gard (author)
Slept with: Maria Van Rysselberghe (one daughter)
Daughter: Catherine (b. 1923, with Maria)
High School: École Alsacienne, Paris
High School: Lycée Henri-IV
Nobel Prize for Literature 1947
Traveled to the USSR 1936
Dreyfus Affair
French Ancestry
Risk Factors: Tuberculosis
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Fanny (2-Nov-1932)
Is the subject of books:
Bibliographie des Écrits de André Gide, 1949, BY: Arnold Naville
Portrait of André Gide, 1953, BY: Justin O'Brien
André Gide: His Life and Art, 1965, BY: Wallace Fowlie
Author of books:
Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891)
Le Voyage d'Urien (1893)
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897, poetry)
Marshlands (1894)
Le Prométhée mal Enchaîné (1899)
L'Immoraliste (1902)
La Porte Étroite (1909)
La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)
Les Caves du Vatican (1914)
Corydon (1924)
Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926, novel)
Si le Grain ne Meurt (1926, memoir)
Voyage au Congo (1927, travelogue)
Retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1936)
Retouches à mon retour de l'U.R.S.S. (1937)
Journal, 1889–1939 (1939, journal)
AKA André Paul Guillaume Gide