God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi (Perennial library)
Julien Green, novelist and diarist, is the celebrated author of more than forty books, includingThe Closed Garden, The Transgressor, Moira, The Other Sleep,andJournals, 1938-1971.A pivotal figure in the Paris literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, he became in 1971 the only American writer to be elected to theAcademie Française.