Jean Genet

Jean Genet (1910-1986) was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony, The Blacks, and The Maids.

Further Reading

Edmund White, Jean Genet (London: Chatto and Windus, 1993) - a biography of Genet.

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Prisoner of Hate: Jean Genet and Palestine, a review of Edmund White's biography of Genet by Martin Kramer.

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