Marguerite Yourcenar

French novelist and essayist (1903-1987).

Born June 7th, 1903 in City of Brussels. [ref]

Died December 17th, 1987 at 84 years old in Bar Harbor. [ref]

Occupations
essayist, novelist, poet, translator, university teacher, writer

Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. Napoleon Bonaparte