![]() ![]() In 1939, her partner at the time, the literary scholar and Kansas City native Grace Frick, invited Yourcenar to the United States to escape the outbreak of World War II in Europe. She translated Virginia Woolf's The Waves over a 10-month period in 1937. Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. ![]() ![]() She adopted the surname Yourcenar – an almost anagram of Crayencour, having one fewer c – as a pen name in 1947 she also took it as her legal surname. She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother. Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour in Brussels, Belgium, to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour, of French bourgeois descent, originating from French Flanders, a very wealthy landowner, and a Belgian mother, Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, of Belgian nobility, who died ten days after her birth. Bust in the square of the Saint-Vaast church, in Bailleul, where Marguerite Yourcenar spent her childhood summers ![]()
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