MAUPASSANT, GUY DE

born Aug. 5, 1850, Chteau de Miromesnil?, near Dieppe, France died July 6, 1893, Paris in full Henry-ren-albert-guy De Maupassant French naturalist writer of short stories and novels who is by general agreement the greatest French short-story writer. Additional reading Biographies include Francis Steegmuller, Maupassant: A Lion in the Path (1949), the most satisfactory biography in English; and Michael Lerner, Maupassant (1975), a later biographical study. Criticism includes Artine Artinian, Maupassant Criticism in France, 18801940 (1941), a bibliography; E.D. Sullivan, Maupassant the Novelist (1954), and Maupassant: The Short Stories (1962), useful studies; and Martin Turnell, The Art of French Fiction (1959, reprinted 1970).