Emile Zola

Émile Zola was a French novelist, journalist and playwright, and the best-known practitioner of literary naturalism. His Les Rougon-Macquart series includes The Fortune of the Rougons, The Belly of Paris, The Kill, The Sin of Father Mouret, The Human Beast and The Downfall. He was a major figure in the Dreyfus affair, where his newspaper opinion J'Accuse...! became famous, and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. He died in 1902.