Jean Prévost (1901–1944)

Jean Prévost was considered one of the most gifted French writers of his generation. In 1926 he married his first wife, writer Marcelle Auclair, and the couple had three children. He was drafted at the beginning of World War II and later helped create the underground newspaper Les Étoiles. He won the grand prize for literature of the Académie française in 1943. He died a hero of the French Resistance in an ambush near Grenoble in 1944.

Please do not combine or confuse this writer with the Canadian politician Jean Prévost (1870-1915); or the artist Jean Prévost (born 1934); or the Swiss physician Jean Louis Prévost (1838-1927).