Rosette C. Lamont

Rosette Lamont was born on February 15, 1927, in Paris. Marvin Carlson called Lamont "a leading scholar on the post-war French theatre". She was widely known as an authority on Eugene Ionesco. In 1973, Lamont was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the anti-hero in the drama and the novel". She also served as a 1974 Department of State Scholar Exchange Program envoy and a 1983-1984 Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow. Her mother was murdered at some point after Lamont's first marriage. Lamont died on January 5, 2012, in Falmouth, Massachusetts. ==References==