Émile Zola was a significant 19th century French novelist, critic, and political activist. Born in Paris in 1840, Émile Édouard-Charles-Antoine Zola was the only child of an Italian father and a French mother. The family moved to Aixen-Provence when Émile was three; four years later, Émile's father died of pneumonia, leaving little money behind. Zola
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 01:15PM on October 11, 2015