Romain Rolland (1866 -1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings". Rolland's most famous novel is Jean-Christophe, which brings together his interests and ideals in the story of a German musical genius who...