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Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French writer, playwright, historian, novelist, musician, teacher, essayist, dramatist, and musicologist. Born in Clamecy, Nièvre, France, Rolland eventually died in Vézelay, France.
Rolland was educated at both the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and Lycée Saint-Louis which are prestigious schools located in Paris, France. He is an instance of a person.
He is most notable for his work on Jean-Christophe, a literary piece which earned him a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915. The Nobel Prize was a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he described different types of human beings. In addition to Jean-Christophe, Rolland was also the author of other literary works, such as Amour d'Enfants.
