Andre Mauroy (1885-1967) - an outstanding French writer, one of the recognized masters of culture of the 20th century, a member of the French Academy, created more than a hundred and a half books in half a century of literary activity. Master of the genre of romanized biography (books about Shelley, Byron, Balzac, Turgenev, George Sand, Dumas-father and Dumas-son, Hugo) and a short ironic psychological story.