Marguerite Yourcenar

Yourcenar, Marguerite (1903–87), pen name of Marguerite de Crayencour, Belgian-born French author who became a U.S. citizen in the 1940s. The first woman elected to the Académie Française (1980), she is best known for the historical novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) and The Abyss (1968).