Henri Troyat, 95, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and later became one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, died March 2 in Paris. No cause of death was reported. Mr. Troyat wrote more than 100 works, including novels, biographies...

Henri Troyat was a very popular as well as a very long-lived writer, but his style remained immaculate, using the French language with a precision, and inventiveness, almost unknown among best- selling authors. He responded to his public by publishing regularly two books a...

Russian-born writer Henri Troyat, who moved to France as a child and became one of the most prolific, popular and respected writers of his adopted country, has died, a fellow writer said. He was 95.Maurice Druon, a fellow member of the Academie Francaise, announced Troyat's...

World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a POW during the 1945 allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, into his 1969...

"The Red and the White" offers a clear echo of one major literary accomplishment and in its form it challenges a second masterpiece. There are similarities, both of large design and of special technique, between "The Red and the White" and "War and Peace." Having marched boldly into such company the book must justify its ambition by showing a brilliant command of its material. And it does show that command. Encompassing chaos, as the Russian revolution is dramatized...

[La Neige en Deuil (The Mountain)] is a tale of great simplicity, yet one cannot fail to be struck by the quantity of imagery to be found in it. Troyat has achieved the quality of simplicity by having the story put before us mostly seen through the eyes of the main character, Isaïe. Once the author has set the scene, we find, after a gradual transition, that it is Isaïe's view we are sharing, his experience past and present which we are living. And Isaïe is an unsophisticated man...

"The Red and the White" is Troyat's most ambitious and most successful novel to date. It is a variegated picture of Russia during World War I and through the two revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent civil war…. The reader is at first bewildered by the profusion of details and the multiplicity of scenes and characters. [Five] or six secondary plots unfold simultaneously. Characters appear and disappear. A few lines of narrative recall the general background of events that filled...