Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier (October 3, 1886 - September 22, 1914), a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which was made into a film, and is considered as one of the classics of French literature.
He was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher département, in France, the son of a school teacher. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, near Paris, where he prepared the entrance examination to the École Normale Supérieure, but without success. He then studied at the merchant marine school in Brest.
From 1905, he worked as a volunteer in London. He returned to France in 1909 and became a literary critic. He met André Gide and Paul Claudel.
He died fighting near Les Éparges (Meuse) shortly after the beginning of World War I.
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