Cardboard cutout of Honore de Balzac. He was a French playwright and novelist and has been considered one of the greatest writers in the fiction genre. He is best known for La Comedie humaine. Much of his work as been adopted into film and continues to inspire the art of story telling. He has inspired people including Henry James Charles Dickens Emile Zola Gustave Flaubert Jacques Rivette and Francois Truffaut. His work habits were notoriously intense. He wrote from 1AM to 8AM. Dimensions are 71x23 inches.