Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was Les Thibault, a roman fleuve about the Thibault family, originally published as a series of eight novels. The story follows the fortunes of the two Thibault brothers, Antoine and Jacques, from their prosperous bourgeois upbringing, through the First World War, to their deaths. He also wrote a novel, Jean Barois, set in the historical context of the Dreyfus Affair.
During the Second World War, he resided in Nice, where he prepared a novel (Souvenirs du lieutenant-colonel de Maumort), which remained unfinished; an English-language translation of this unfinished novel was published in 2000.
Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
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After the years of the First World War, which Martin du Gard spent almost entirely in the front lines, he devoted most of his time to the writing of the «roman-fleuve», Les Thibault, which culminates in the three volumes of L'Été 1914
Summer 1914]. The twelve individual volumes of the series of novels appeared between 1922 and 1940.
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He first attracted attention with the novel Jean Barois (1913), the story of an intellectual torn between the Roman Catholic faith of his childhood and the scientific materialism of his maturity

هناك عاملان يبدوان اثرا فيه بشكل كبير وهما
1- الكنيسة وربما مدارس الكنيسة المتزمة.
2- قضى معظم سنوات الحرب العالمية الاولى وهو على الجهة ولكم ان تتصورا كم من الموت شاهد خلال تلك السنوات.
لا يعرف شيء عن طفولته المبكرة ولا يعرف متى مات والديه.

سنعتبره مجهول الطفولة.