Irène Némirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft. She was at work on her magnum opus, the novel "Suite Française," just two days before French policemen knocked at her door on July 13, 1942, to arrest her as a foreign Jew. She died a month later in Auschwitz, either of typhus or in the gas chambers—the exact circumstances will never be known. She was 39 years old.
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