Maupassant, Guy de

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Maupassant, (Henry René Albert) Guy de (1850–1893)

French author. He established a reputation with the short story ‘Boule de suif/Ball of Fat’ (1880) and wrote some 300 short stories in all. His novels include Une Vie/A Woman's Life (1883) and Bel-Ami (1885). He was encouraged as a writer by Gustave Flaubert.

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