Émile Zola
Emile Zola | Émile-Édouard-Charles-Antoine Zola
About the person
Career:
Writing
Date of birth:1840-04-02
Place of birth:Paris, France
Gender:Male
Popularity:1
Date of death1902-09-28
62Biography
Émile Zola, in full Émile-Édouard-Charles-Antoine Zola, was a French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French writer of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair through his famous open letter, J'Accuse…!