Paul Acker

Paul-Théodore Acker was a French-language writer of popular novels.

Biography

Paul Acker was born on 14 September 1874 in Saverne.
A journalist, he contributed to Le Gaulois, L'Écho de Paris, Revue des deux Mondes, L'Illustration, Revue de Paris, and Revue critique des idées et des livres.
On 27 June 1915, he was killed in a car accident while on military service near the Thann front. He was buried in Saverne on 11 August 1922. A memorial stele was erected in his memory by the Souvenir français in Goldbach.
Charles Maurras paid him posthumous tribute in his book Tombeaux and mentioned his membership in the Action française.

Selected works

Dispensé de l'Article 23, 1898, H. Simonis-EmpisUn mari sans femme, 1902, Librairie MolièrePetites confessions. Visites et portraits, 1905La Petite Madame de Thianges, 1906, Calmann LévyLe Désir de vivre, 1907, Calmann LévyŒuvres sociales des femmes, 1908, Plon-Nourrit Le Soldat Bernard, 1909, FayardLes Exilés, 1911, Plon Le Beau Jardin, 1910, Plon Une ville industrielle alsacienne: Mulhouse, 1912Les deux cahiers, 1912, Plon-Nourrit Les deux amours, 1914Les Demoiselles Bertram, 1914, Plon-NourritTrois tombes, 1916, Plon-NourritL'Oiseau vainqueur, 1916, FlammarionEntre deux rives, 1917, PlonColmar : une ville alsacienne, 1919, Éd. de la Haute-AlsaceTante Babiole - Collection Stella Les Deux Cahiers - Collection Stella Les Exilés - Select-Collection Les Exilés, preface by Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Éditions Laborintus, Lille-Paris, 2016,

Distinctions

Paul Acker was awarded the first Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française for his body of work in 1915.
Paul Acker is listed among the writers who died for their country on the Panthéon's list of people cited.