In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

His novels include Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites, both of which were published in 1947. His youthful experiences at the Mettray reform school are described in Miracle of the Rose, while The Thief's Journal tells the story of his life as a male prostitute. FTP, name this French criminal and author, best known for Absurdist dramas like The Screens, The Blacks, and The Maids.
Literature

The acceleration named for this person can take place when particles repeatedly cross the shock front caused by a supernova. The type of gas named for this person exerts pressure even at absolute zero. This person and Paul Dirac worked out the statistical distribution of particles that obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which is why such particles are named for this person. Those particles, which have non-integer spins, are contrasted with particles named for Satyendra Nath Bose. Name this Italian American who created Chicago Pile-1 in 1942, the first man-made nuclear chain reaction.
Science

Chapter IX of his most widely-read work refutes Condorcet's belief of the organic perfectibility of mankind; that book devotes a number of chapters to refuting Godwin's conjectures on equality. In that work, this thinker distinguished between positive and preventive checks, the latter of which includes restraints on sexual passion. Another of his books discusses the portion of income paid to a factor of production above the (*) opportunity cost and is titled The Nature of Rent. The opening to another of his books argues that resource size grows arithmetically, though the size of the human race grows geometrically; thus massive famine will eventually ensue. For 10 points, name this classical economist who authored An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Literature