Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr as French critic, journalist, and novelist (1808-1890).
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was born at Paris in 1808. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Lycée Condorcet.
The nineteenth century was the age of the serialised novel and mass literacy; writers reached audiences of a size never seen before.
He worked as journalist, writer and novelist.
The writing is recorded in French.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
The honours record reads: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1845) and Vitet Prize (1875).
That the work was written from France matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr died in 1890, aged 82. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1845
- Vitet Prize — 1875
