Editing André Gide (section)

==1930s and 1940s==
In 1930 Gide published a book about the [[Blanche Monnier]] case titled ''La Séquestrée de Poitiers'', changing little but the names of the protagonists. Monnier was a young woman who was kept captive by her own mother for more than 25 years.<ref name="Pujolas">Pujolas, Marie. ''En tournage, un documentaire sur l'incroyable affaire de "La séquestrée de Poitiers"''. France TV info. Feb 27, 2015 [http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/cinema/documentaire/un-documentaire-sur-lincroyable-affaire-de-la-sequestree-de-poitiers-212899]</ref><ref name="Levy">Levy, Audrey. ''Destins de femmes: Ces Poitevines plus ou moins célèbres auront marqué l'Histoire''.  Le Point. Apr 21, 2015. [http://www.lepoint.fr/villes/destins-de-femmes-21-04-2015-1923072_27.php]</ref>

In 1939, Gide became the first living author to be published in the prestigious ''[[Bibliothèque de la Pléiade]]''.

He left France for Africa in 1942 and lived in Tunis from December 1942 until it was re-taken by French, British and American forces in May 1943 and he was able to travel to Algiers where he stayed until the end of World War II.<ref name=OBrien>{{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Justin|title=The Journals of Andre Gide Volume IV 1939–1949. Translated from the French|date=1951|publisher=Secker & Warburg}}</ref> In 1947, he received the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1947/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=20 March 2018}}</ref> He devoted much of his last years to publishing his Journal.<ref>{{cite web
|title= André Gide (1869–1951)
|publisher=Musée virtuel du Protestantisme français
|url= http://www.museeprotestant.org/Pages/Notices.php?scatid=148&noticeid=811&lev=1&Lget=FR
|access-date=6 September 2010}}</ref> Gide died in Paris on 19 February 1951. The Roman Catholic Church placed his works on the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum|Index of Forbidden Books]]'' in 1952.<ref>[http://www.leninimports.com/andre_gide.html André Gide Biography (1869–1951)]. eninimports.com</ref>