Author. He was a 20th century author and journalist. He published three novels: "Battling le ténébreux" in 1928, "Le Fidèle Berger" in 1942, and "Les Fruits du Congo" in 1951. Trying not to lose the flavor of his French words, his novels have been translated into several languages including English. In 1984, his first novel, "Battling le ténébreux", was adapted to a film. Born the son of a military officer, he and his two siblings traveled to various army garrisons until 1915 when the family settled in Ambert. His life changed after a childhood accident, causing him to have poor vision as an adult. Prior to the accident, he excelled in mathematics but changed his focus to studying the German language in college. From his childhood, he was a close friend of author Herni Pourrat and later, his wife Marie Bresson. The longtime colleagues supported each other's careers. Until World War I, he mainly wrote short stories and articles for the newspapers. During his literary career, he translated several novels into German for a host of authors. In 1929 he married Hélène Gros-Coissy and the couple had a son. Although there was always a strong bond between him and his wife, they were separated most of their marriage. From 1937 until 1939, he was a French teacher in the Franco-Egyptian high school in Cairo, Egypt. During World War II, he was captured and imprisoned in June of 1940 by Nazi forces. This traumatic ordeal caused a psychiatric collapse, which led to him to be hospitalized after an attempted suicide. He was discharged in 1941. The result of this experience led to the publication of his 1942 novel, "Faithful Shepard." At the end of the war, he returned to Germany as a corresponding journalist, reporting the war crime trials. In 1946 he returned to France, where he finished his third novel "Congo Fruit" in 1951. After returning to France, he became a prolific columnist for newspapers and magazines. He wrote on a host of subjects including the arts, humor, politics or responding to letters written to him. His articles were not only published in newspapers but in women's magazines such as "Elle" and "Marie-Clair." He became more withdrawn after his wife's death in December of 1961. At this period, he continued to write novels yet none are published but found in boxes in his home after his death. With the aid of his biographer Ferny Besson, his unpublished writings are being read by the public in several sources including "Correspondence with Alexandre Vialatte." He and Besson first became colleagues in 1947. Another biographic work was published in 1997 by Pascal Sigoda. Having a host of interviews from other literary sources, a three-hour documentary his of life was aired in 1969 on television. In 1991 the Alexandre Vialatte Award was established to "reward a French-language writer whose elegance of writing and liveliness are a source of pleasure for the reader." In the city of Clermont-Ferrand, a hotel bears his name, the Hôtel Littéraire Alexandre Vialatt. A commentative plaque was erected on his 1936 to 1966 Paris residence.