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Frederick Brown is the author of "Zola: A Life" and is writing a biography of Gustave Flaubert. During the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 1902, Emile Zola died in his sleep of carbon monoxide ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Blood, Sex and Money is a groundbreaking adaptation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga for BBC Radio 4. The first part 'Blood' is now available on ...

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris ...

Émile Zola, in full Émile-Édouard-Charles-Antoine Zola, French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his ...