Roger Stéphane, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Stéphane

French journalist

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1919

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1994

Profession: writer, journalist, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Roger Stéphane (19 August 1919 - 4 December 1994) was the name used by the writer, Roger Worms.
He originally selected it in September 1941 when he joined the "Combat" Resistance group.
After the Liberation he became a literary critic, author and journalist, acknowledged during his final years as a member of the Paris left wing intellectual establishment.
Openly gay, he is also remembered as a pioneering campaigner for gay rights.Known for his aestheticism, those whom he particularly admired included Stendhal, Proust and T.
E.
Lawrence.
As an author, there are suggestions that his choice of subject matter was catholic sometimes verging on the eclectic.
He wrote biographical works about both Habib Bourguiba and his old friend Georges Simenon. Outwardly cheerful, he attracted further headlines in December 1994 when he committed suicide by shooting himself.