For 10 points, name the French author of the novels Strait is the Gate, The Counterfeiters, and The Immoralist.
This author wrote about Amelie's struggles with a husband who loves his adopted, blind daughter, Gertrude, more than his biological children. This author also wrote of Menalque's teaching two life lessons to Nathaniel in a poem, while he wrote of Juliette's sister Alissa who refuses to fulfill a childhood pact of love with Jerome. This man wrote a Journal of one of his novels to explain the development of the work in which Gheridanisol convinces Boris to commit suicide. That novel includes intimate relations between Bernard and both Edouard and Olivier. In another novel by this man, a Tunisian honeymoon is ruined by tuberculosis before Michel realizes his love for young boys. For 10 points, name the French author of the novels Strait is the Gate, The Counterfeiters, and The Immoralist.
This author wrote about Amelie's struggles with a husband who loves his adopted, blind daughter, Gertrude, more than his biological children.
Andre Gide