Marguerite Yourcenar Writer

Marguerite Yourcenar (French: [juʁsənaʁ]; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 08, 1903
Birth name	Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour
Birth place	Belgium , Brussels
Date of death	December 17, 1987
Place of death	Mount Desert Island , Northeast Harbor Maine , United States