Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan, born Françoise Delphine Quoirez (1935 to 2004), was a French playwright, novelist and screenwriter whose career moved between the stage, the novel and the screenplay. Her work was known for strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse, published in 1954 when she was still a teenager, and it remains the book by which she is most widely remembered. She is an author of the French literary tradition, and her early success as a young writer is the most distinctive feature of her public career.