WRITER

Jean Clair

1940 - Today

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Jean Clair (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ klɛʁ]) is the pen name of Gérard Régnier (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ ʁeɲe]; born 20 October 1940 in Paris, France). Clair is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the Académie française since May, 2008. He was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Clair has received more than 44,634 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Clair is the 5,255th most popular writer (down from 3,815th in 2019), the 4,628th most popular biography from France (down from 3,627th in 2019) and the 591st most popular French Writer.

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  • 16

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Notable Works

Young Mutants
Science fiction, Short stories, Children's stories
A collection of short stories by a variety of authors about children with one common characteristic - they are all mutants. Hail and Farewell - short story by Ray Bradbury Keep Out - short story by Fredric Brown What Friends Are For - short story by John Brunner The Wonder Horse - short story by George Byram He That Hath Wings - novelette by Edmond Hamilton Second Sight - short story by Alan E. Nourse I Can't Help Saying Goodbye - short story by Ann Mackenzie The Listening Child - short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright] The Children's Room - novelette by Raymond F. Jones The Lost Language - short story by David H. Keller, M.D. Prone - short story by Mack Reynolds Come On, Wagon! - short story by Zenna Henderson
Balthus
Criticism and interpretation, Exhibitions, French Art
Galaxy
American Science fiction, Galaxy magazine, Indexes
Horace L. Gold - essay by Frederik Pohl Gold on Galaxy - essay by H. L. Gold Coming Attraction - short story by Fritz Leiber To Serve Man - short story by Damon Knight Memoir (To Serve Man) - essay by Damon Knight Betelgeuse Bridge - short story by William Tenn From a Cave Deep in Stuyvesant Town — A Memoir of Galaxy's Most Creative Years - essay by William Tenn [as by Philip Klass] Cost of Living - short story by Robert Sheckley Memoir of Galaxy Magazine - essay by Robert Sheckley The Model of a Judge - short story by William Morrison Memoir (The Model of a Judge) - essay by William Morrison The Holes Around Mars - short story by Jerome Bixby Memoir (The Holes Around Mars) - essay by Jerome Bixby Horrer Howce - short story by Margaret St. Clair Memoir (Horrer Howce) - essay by Margaret St. Clair People Soup - short story by Alan Arkin Memoir (People Soup) - essay by Alan Arkin Something Bright - short story by Zenna Henderson The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - novelette by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith [as by Cordwainer Smith] The Deep Down Dragon - short story by Judith Merril Memoir (The Deep Down Dragon) - essay by Judith Merril Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night - novelette by Algis Budrys Memoir: Spilled Milk - essay by Algis Budrys The Place Where Chicago Was - novelette by Jim Harmon Memoir (The Place Where Chicago Was) - essay by Jim Harmon The Great Nebraska Sea - short story by Allan Danzig Memoir (The Great Nebraska Sea) - essay by Allan Danzig Oh, to Be a Blobel! - novelette by Philip K. Dick Memoir (Oh, To Be a Blobel!) - essay by Philip K. Dick Founding Father - short story by Isaac Asimov Memoir (Founding Father) - essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of Introduction to Founding Father 1968) Going Down Smooth - short story by Robert Silverberg Memoir (Going Down Smooth) - essay by Robert Silverberg All the Myriad Ways - short story by Larry Niven Memoir (All the Myriad Ways) - essay by Larry Niven The Last Flight of Dr. Ain - short story by James Tiptree, Jr. Memoir (Galaxy Book Shelf) - essay by Algis Budrys Galaxy Book Shelf (Galaxy, September 1969) - essay by Algis Budrys Slow Sculpture - short story by Theodore Sturgeon Memoir (Slow Sculpture) - essay by Theodore Sturgeon About a Secret Crocodile - short story by R. A. Lafferty Memoir (About a Secret Crocodile) - essay by R. A. Lafferty Cold Friend - short story by Harlan Ellison Memoir (Cold Friend) - essay by Harlan Ellison The Day Before the Revolution - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin The Gift of Garigolli - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl Overdrawn at the Memory Bank - novelette by John Varley Note (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank) - essay by John Varley Horace, Galaxyca - essay by Alfred Bester
Christian Boltanski
Exhibitions, Artists, Individual Artist
A Subtreasury of American Humor
American wit and humor, anthologies
humor
Tomorrow's children
American Science fiction, Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction
Fantastic anthology of eighteen fantasy and science-fiction short stories, novelettes and novellas that feature adolescent protagonists or are at aimed at adolescent audiences, or both. Contains some true classics as well as as several fun but relatively unknown gems. No Life of Their Own - novella by Clifford D. Simak The Accountant - short story by Robert Sheckley Novice - novelette by James H. Schmitz Child of Void - short story by Margaret St. Clair When the Bough Breaks - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett] A Pail of Air - short story by Fritz Leiber Junior Achievement - short story by William M. Lee Cabin Boy - novelette by Damon Knight The Little Terror - short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins] Gilead - novelette by Zenna Henderson The Menace from Earth - novelette by Robert A. Heinlein The Wayward Cravat - short story by Gertrude Friedberg The Father-Thing - short story by Philip K. Dick Star, Bright - novelette by Mark Clifton All Summer in a Day - short story by Ray Bradbury It's a Good Life - short story by Jerome Bixby The Place of the Gods - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét The Ugly Little Boy - novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of Lastborn)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Clair ranks 5,255 out of 7,302Before him are Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Thomas Love Peacock, Candace Bushnell, Sara Paretsky, Jiang Rong, and Jacques Laurent. After him are Petr Bezruč, André Heller, Nalini Bala Devi, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Edward Carpenter, and Roshanara Begum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Jean Clair ranks 422Before him are Gianni De Michelis, Patrick Leahy, Héctor Silva, Rex Cawley, Ermindo Onega, and James Gammon. After him are Jack Thompson, Mutsuhiko Nomura, Wolfgang Paul, Franco Balmamion, David Peoples, and James Brady.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Clair ranks 4,628 out of 6,770Before him are Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840), Zazie (1964), Laurent Cantet (1961), Arnulf of Chocques (null), Jacques Laurent (1919), and Marc Caro (1956). After him are Sarah Biasini (1977), Jules Berry (1883), Philippe Gondet (1942), Valérie Pécresse (1967), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884), and Cédric Villani (1973).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Clair ranks 591Before him are Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (1589), Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680), Tony Duvert (1945), Édouard Chavannes (1865), Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (1840), and Jacques Laurent (1919). After him are Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884), Armand Lanoux (1913), Marguerite Audoux (1863), Gilles Perrault (1931), Teresa de la Parra (1889), and Jacques Jasmin (1798).