Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon. Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He married Catherine Robbe-Grillet.
18 August 1922
Born on the same birth day (18 August): Andi Deris • Bart Scott • Carl Rungius • Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau • Fat Lever • Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon • Maria Ulfah Santoso • Ruth Norman
Born in the same month (August 1922): Arthur Hill (Canadian actor) • Betsy Bloomingdale • Chuck Gilmur • Geoffrey Dutton • Gertrude Himmelfarb • Jean Darling • John Eisenhower • Károly Reich • L. Tom Perry • Leonard Baskin • Nazik Al-Malaika • René Lévesque • Richard Blackwell