François Augiéras

François Augiéras (1925-1971) was an American-born French painter and writer.

François Augiéras was born in Rochester, New York, where his father taught the piano at the Eastman School of Music. He moved to Dordogne in France with his mother after his father died while he was still a child. At the age of fourteen, he left home and started on a nomadic life. In 1944, he joined the French Navy. He spent some time in a psychiatric asylum and in a monastery. He later moved to El Goléa, where his uncle lived. His first novel, The Old Man and the Child, is loosely based on the avuncular rapport that ensued.

His novels deal with incest, homosexuality, sadism and even bestiality. They also describe his trips to North Africa and Greece.André Gide acted as one of his mentors.

He died in a public hospital in Dordogne in 1971.

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