72) Jules Renard

Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard (1864 – 1910). French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Nature Stories, 1896). Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre (The Pleasure of Breaking, 1898) and the posthumously published Huit Jours à la campagne (Eight Days in the Country, 1912).

- "By 1890, the red-headed Renard had published a number of short prose pieces in various outlets." https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprisingly-happy-journals-of-jules-renard