Francis Steegmuller (1906 - 1994)

Born 3 Jul 1906 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Husband of Shirley (Hazzard) Steegmuller — married 22 Dec 1963 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Died 20 Oct 1994 at age 88 in Naples, Naples, Campania, Italy

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Biography

Francis Steegmuller is Notable.

Francis was born in 1906. He passed away in 1994.

Francis Steegmuller was an American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Steegmuller graduated from Columbia University in 1927. He contributed numerous short stories and articles to The New Yorker and also wrote under the pseudonyms of Byron Steel and David Keith.

Steegmuller won two National Book Awards—one in 1971 for Arts and Letters for his biography of Jean Cocteau (Cocteau: A Biography), another in 1981 for Translation for the first volume of Flaubert's selected letters (The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857) —and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal.

His first wife was Beatrice Stein, a painter who was a pupil and friend of Jacques Villon; she died in 1961.

He married the writer Shirley Hazzard in 1963.

His collected papers are held at two universities: at Yale University, the James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) Papers and the Francis Steegmuller Collection for Jacques Villon; at Columbia University, the Francis Steegmuller Papers 1877–1979.

Steegmuller died in Naples, Italy.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Steegmuller