Honoré de Balzac
Balzac, Honoré de
May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850 (aged 51)
Birth place: Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
7 works in English-language magazines
| Date | Page | Type | Title | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1888 | 411 | Short Fiction | The Executioner | The Cosmopolitan, September 1888 |
| July 1926 | 117 | Short Fiction | A Passion in the Desert | The Argosy, July 1926 |
| December 1926 | 119 | Short Fiction | The Red Inn | The Argosy, December 1926 |
| June 1927 | 95 | Short Fiction | An Episode Under the Terror | The Argosy, June 1927 |
| November 1927 | 45 | Short Fiction | The Conscript | The Argosy, November 1927 |
| October 1928 | 92 | Short Fiction | Facino Cane | The Argosy, October 1928 |
| December 1936 | 621|621.2 | Short Fiction | A Passion in the Desert | Weird Tales, December 1936 |
30 English-language books
- Melmoth 2
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 1829 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.