Colette Audry
Colette Audry (6 July 1906 – 20 October 1990) was a French novelist, screenwriter, and critic.Audry was born in Orange, Vaucluse. She won the Prix Médicis for the autobiographical novel Derrière la baignoire (Behind the Bathtub). As a screenwriter she first gained acclaim for ''The Battle for the Railway'' and also wrote for her sister Jacqueline. In politics she was a member of the Anti-Stalinist left (she was a member of the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party) and an associate to Simone de Beauvoir. She died at Issy-les-Moulineaux, aged 84. Provided by Wikipedia