Andre Gide's Death
Born (Birthday) November 22, 1869
Death Date February 19, 1951
Age of Death 81 years
Cause of Death Pneumonia
Profession Autobiographer
The autobiographer Andre Gide died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
French writer of fiction and autobiography who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. His most famous work is The Immoralist, a book that was unique in its time for its inclusion of homosexual themes.
He began to recognize and accept his homosexual orientation when he was in his early twenties, following an unconsummated marriage with his cousin, Madeleine Rondeaux. Surprisingly, in 1923, he fathered a daughter through a brief sexual relationship with a woman.
Quotes
"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
"Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.