The development of his own philosophy can be traced in his The Stumbling Block and God and Mammon and is on display in a novel about a woman lusted after by a physician and his son, The Desert of Love.  
In one of this man's works, a boy narrates the impact of his stepmother, Brigitte's quest for moral perfection.  In another work, the charismatic leader of a movement that is condemned by the Vatican confuses a student. In addition to, Young Man in Chains, this writer's works include The Black Notebook and the foreword for Elie Wiesel's Night.  The development of his own philosophy can be traced in his The Stumbling Block and God and Mammon and is on display in a novel about a woman lusted after by a physician and his son, The Desert of Love.  Other works include a novel about old Louis, who tries to keep his fortune from his wife and children, and a1927 novel inspired by the trial of Henriette-Blance Canby, which depicts a Bordeaux woman who plots to escape her bourgeois marriage by poisoning her husband.  For 10 points, identify this Nobel Prize winning author of A Woman of the Pharisees, The Knot of Vipers and Therese Desqueyroux.
In one of this man's works, a boy narrates the impact of his stepmother, Brigitte's quest for moral perfection.  
Francois Mauriac