Male : Poet & novelist. Killed on the Meuse during WW1. His body was never found

Nationality : French Place of Birth : La Chapelle d'Angillon, Nr Bourges

Date of Birth : 1886 Date of Death : 1914 Age : 27

Pseudonyms : Henri Alban Fournier

Education : Brest & Paris

In French
Le Grande Meaulnes
Original Parts : La Nouvelle Revue Francaise (1913 July to September : five issues)
First Edition (1913 Emile-Paul) - only 1000 copies
First edition : de Luxe Issue (1913 Emile-Paul) - 10 copies on Japanese vellum
First Edition : 2nd Impression (1913 Emile-Paul)
(1927 Paris) - D Galanis
(1930 Paris) - 180 signed by <H David
(1933 Brussels) - B Mahn
(1936 Paris) - P Gaudon
(1943 Brussels) - N Degouy
(1946 Paris) - J Frelaut
(1946 Paris) - Melsonn
(1949 Paris) - M Terrasse
(1956 Lausanne) - J P Remon
(1965 Paris) - G Barret
(1983 Paris) - V Herzfeld
[Filmed in 1967]

Other Works
La Nouvelle Revue Francaise (1922, 1st December) - contains "Le Pari", Chapt IV of "Colombe Blanchet"
Miracles (1924 Gallimard) - edited by Jacques Riviere
Correspondence Avec Jacques Riviere 1905-1914 (1926-8 Gallimard) - 4 vols (1948 Gallimard - 2 vols)
Lettres a Sa Famille 1905-1914 (1930 Plon) (1949 Emile-Paul. Rev Ed)
Lettres au Petit B (1930 Emile-Paul)
Petits Metiers et Gagne-Petit (1960 PP, Paris) - H Renaud after Foujita
Correspondance : Alain-Fournier et Charles Peguy (1973 Fayard)
Colombe Blanchet : Esquisses D'un Second Roman (nd. Le Cherche Midi)
Chroniques et Critiques (1991 Le Cherche Midi)

In English
Le Grand Meaulnes
The Wanderer (1928 NY) (1929 Constable)
The Wanderer (1947 Paul Elek) - John Minton
The Lost Domain (1959 OUP)
The Wanderer (1958 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Dignimont
The Lost Domain (1986 OUP) - Ian Beck
Other Works
Towards the Lost Domain : Letters from London 1905 (1986 Carcanet)

READING
The Bookman : Alain-Fournier Issue (1928 October)
Isabelle Riviere : Images D'Alain-Fournier (1938 Emile-Paul)
Fernand Desonay : Le Grand Meaulnes D'Alain-Fournier (1941 Editions des Artistes, Brussels)
Albert Leonard : Alain-Fournier et le Grande Meaulnes (1943 Desclee de Brouwer)
Johr Walter : Alain-Fournier - Le Paysage D'une Ame (1945 Switzerland)
Aimee Beaver : Itineraire Spirituel D'Alain-Fournier (1946 Correa)
Henri Gillet : Alain-Fournier (1948 Emile-Paul)
Robert Gibson : The Quest of Alain-Fournier (1953 Hamish Hamilton)
Robert Champigny : Portrait of a Symbolist Hero (1954 Indiana UP)
Jean-Marie Delettrez : Alain-Fournier et le Grande Meaulnes (1954 Emile Paul)
Simone : Sous de Nouveaux Soleils (1957 Gallimard)
Leon Cellier : Le Grand Meaulnes Ou L'Imitation Manquee (1963 Archives des Lettres Modernes)
Jean Bastaire : Alain-Fournier ou la Tentation D'Enfance (1964 Plon)
Michel Guiomar : Inconscient et Imaginaire Dans Le Grand Meaulnes (1964 Corti)
Isabelle Riviere : Vie et Passion D'Alain-Fournier (1964 Jaspard, Polus & Cie, Monaco)
Paul Genuist : Alain-Fournier Face a L'Angoisse (1965 M J Minard)
Jean Loize : Alain-Fournier et son Oeuvre (1968 Hachette)
Robert Gibson : The Land without a Name - Alain-Fournier & His World (1975 Paul Elek)
David Arkell : Alain-Fournier - A Brief Life (1986 Carcanet)