You will find in these pages, remembrances, stories and essays on André Gide from his contemporaries, admirers and detractors. Some of the recollections can be rather bitter at times. Gide, always hard on himself, was equally direct with his fellow writers. They replied in kind. More texts will be added as they are discovered. Truman Capote The Catholic Church Condemnation Jean Cocteau Roger Martin du Gard Claude Mauriac Francois Mauriac André Maurois New York Times 1951 Obituary 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature Presentation Address and Gide's Acceptance Speech Essay on the presentation of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Literature by Kjell Strömberg Jean Paul Sartre