* 1920 – Anatole Broyard, American critic and essayist ( d. 1990 )

* Anatole Broyard

In 1980, Anatole Broyard described Tropic of Cancer as " Mr. Miller's first and best novel ," showing " a flair for finding symbolism in unobtrusive places " and having " beautiful sentence.

Anatole Paul Broyard ( July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990 ) was an American writer, literary critic and editor for The New York Times.

Broyard was born in New Orleans into a mixed-race Louisiana Creole family, the son of Paul Anatole Broyard, a carpenter and construction worker, and his wife, Edna Miller, neither of whom finished elementary school.

As the writer and editor Brent Staples wrote in 2003, " Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer -- and not just a ' Negro writer ' consigned to the back of the literary bus.

He expanded on this in " The Passing of Anatole Broyard ", an essay published the next year in his Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man ( 1997 ).

* " Anatole Broyard, 70, Book Critic and Editor at The Times, Is Dead ", The New York Times, Friday, October 12, 1990.

* Jim Burns, " Anatole Broyard ", Penniless Press, UK

The New York Times critic Anatole Broyard believed that John Gardner was underqualified to write Bond.

Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was “ a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller .” Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard, Jerome Charyn, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as “ Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O ' Connor .” The influential profile writer and music journalist Stanley Booth observed that Suttree was “ probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy ’ s books ... which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature .”

* Review by Anatole Broyard, The New York Times, 13 June 1972

* Anatole Broyard, author

Or, in the words of Anatole France, `` The law in its majestic equality must forbid the rich, as well as the poor, from begging in the streets and sleeping under bridges ''.

* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

Many of Marker's earliest films were produced by Anatole Dauman.

* 1974 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian screenwriter and film producer ( b. 1902 )

Directors from nations such as Poland ( Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Andrzej Żuławski ), Argentina ( Gaspar Noe and Edgardo Cozarinsky ), Russia ( Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak ) and Georgia ( Gela Babluani, Otar Iosseliani ) are prominent in the ranks of French cinema.

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

In the course of requesting a veritable library of reading matter from home, Seymour predicts his brother's success as a writer as well as his own death and condemns the ironic " twist " endings in the stories of Anatole France, twist endings being an early Salinger device.

The body, styled by Wolfgang Möbius under guidance of Anatole Lapine, was mainly galvanized steel, but the doors, front fenders, and hood were aluminum in order to make the car more lightweight.

* Tovarich ( 1937 ), d. Anatole Litvak

The pamphlet drew upon an earlier act of subversion by likening Breton to Anatole France, whose unquestioned value Breton had challenged in 1924.

** Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director ( d. 1974 )

* December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director ( b. 1902 )

* April 16 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

* July 1 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist ( d. 1904 )

Nice also has numerous museums of all kinds: Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse ( arenas of Cimiez containing Roman ruins ), Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Musée international d ' Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, Musée Terra-Amata, Museum of Asian Art, Musée d ' art moderne et d ' art contemporain which devotes much space to the well-known École of Nice ”), Museum of Natural History, Musée Masséna, Naval Museum and Galerie des Ponchettes.

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

One example of Colbert's determination to control the way she was photographed occurred during the filming of Tovarich in 1937, when one of her favored cameramen was dismissed by the director, Anatole Litvak.

All This, and Heaven Too is a 1940 American drama film made by Warner Bros .- First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer.

; Anatole Abragam ( professor, France ): for outstanding achievements in physics of condensed state and methods of research in nuclear physics.

The intense political and judicial scandal that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus ( the Dreyfusards ), such as Anatole France, Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him ( the anti-Dreyfusards ), such as Hubert-Joseph Henry and Edouard Drumont, the director and publisher of the anti-semitic newspaper La Libre Parole.

The affair saw the emergence of the " intellectuals " – academics and others with high intellectual achievements who took positions on grounds of higher principle – such as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poincaré and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure.

* A satirical take on the Dreyfus affair appears in L ' ile Des Pingouins by Anatole France.

The Snake Pit is a 1948 American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak.

* " Bliss Broyard: ' One Drop ' and What It Means ", Fresh Air from WHYY, National Public Radio, September 27, 2007.

After his death, Broyard became the center of controversy and discussions related to how he had chosen to live as an adult in New York.

Broyard was descended from pre-Civil War free people of color.

The first Broyard in Louisiana was a French colonist in the mid-eighteenth century.

Broyard was the second of three children ; he and his sister Lorraine, two years older, were light skinned with features that were more European.

When Broyard was a young child, his family joined the Great Migration during the Great Depression, moving from New Orleans to New York City, to go where his father thought there were more work opportunities They lived in a working-class and racially diverse community in Brooklyn.

Having grown up in the French Quarter's Creole community, Broyard felt he had little in common with the blacks of Brooklyn.

By high school, the younger Broyard had become interested in artistic and cultural life ; his sister Shirley said he was unique in the family with these interests.

Broyard had some stories accepted for publication in the 1940s.

When he enlisted in the Army, the armed services were segregated ; Broyard was accepted as white, went to officers ' school, and was promoted to captain.

Broyard used the GI Bill to study at the New School for Social Research and settled in Greenwich Village, where he became part of its bohemian artistic and literary life.

With money saved during the war, Broyard owned a bookstore for a time.

Stories of his were included in two anthologies of fiction widely associated with the Beat writers, but Broyard did not identify with them.

After the 1950s, Broyard taught creative writing at The New School, New York University, and Columbia University, in addition to his regular book reviewing.

For nearly fifteen years, Broyard wrote daily book reviews for the New York Times.

In the late 1970s, Broyard started publishing brief personal essays in the Times, which many people considered among his best work.

In 1984 Broyard was given a column in the Book Review, for which he also worked as an editor.

Broyard first married Aida Sanchez, a black Puerto Rican with whom he had a daughter Gala.

They divorced after Broyard returned from military service in World War II.