Honoré de Balzac

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  • Legal Name: Balzac, Honoré de
  • Place of Birth: Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
  • Date of Birth: May 20, 1799
  • Date of Death: August 18, 1850

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Generally considered the creator of realism in literature and one of the greatest fiction writers of all time. Schooled in Paris, Balzac worked for a lawyer at age 16, writing plays and novels at night. After the failure of his fiction, he attempted to start a business, which also failed. In 1929 he finally published his first novel, and spent the bulk of his life in Paris. As with many SF writers, Balzac had a plan to unify his novels into a unified series, referring to it as The Human Comedy, which eventually encompassed some 90 novels and novellas.

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