For 10 points, identify this author of The Royal Way and Man's Fate.
One of his first works ends with the destruction of an attacking army by a school of scorpions in the surrealistic setting of "Farfelu."  Another work follows the adventures of the Seven Sins and was dedicated to Max Jacob.  A prodigious biographer, he depicted the effects of his final illness in the volume Lazarus, while another work begins with a section called "Chartres Camp" and depicts an Alsatian, Vincent Berger, coming to grips with the legacy of war.  That work, The Walnut Trees of Altenburg was preceded by a work about Kassner an intellectual who escapes a concentration camp in Days of Wrath.  In another work, this author tracks a group of varied characters, including the medical student Katow and the Chinese figher Ch'en, during a Communist uprising in Shanghai that is later crushed by Nationalist forces.  For 10 points, identify this author of The Royal Way and Man's Fate.
One of his first works ends with the destruction of an attacking army by a school of scorpions in the surrealistic setting of "Farfelu."  
Andre Malraux