Books By Françoise Sagan - Author

Born in 1935 in Cajarc, a commune in the Lot department in France, Françoise Sagan spent her childhood in Paris and the years of the German occupation moving between Lyon and the Dauphiné region of the French Alps, where her father owned factories. She returned to Paris after the war to complete her schooling, after which she went on to study at the Sorbonne. It was there, over the summer of 1953, that she wrote Bonjour Tristesse. From the moment of its publication, the novel was a dazzling success. In 1956, her second novel, Un certain sourire (A Certain Smile), confirmed her status as a serious writer; this book, too, was a great success.

Sagan is generally described as having adopted a scandalous lifestyle; this fed into an image she struggled to escape thereafter-that of a habitué of casinos and nightclubs reveling in drink and fast cars. After a serious car accident in 1957, Sagan was left addicted to opioids following her recuperation. Sagan published more than thirty books