Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
- Occupation
- writer, playwright, essayist, historian
- Position held
- member of the École française de Rome
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- January 29, 1866
- Died
- December 30, 1944
