Author. His novels reflect his fervent Catholicism and intense concern for moral and spiritual problems. They include “The Star of Satan” (1926), “Joy” (1929), “Night Is Darkest” (1935), “The Diary of a Country Priest” (1936),  and “Monsieur Ouine” (1945).  Bernanos was born in Paris and served in the French Army during World War I.  A political conservative,  he believed in monarchy and supported Royalist causes until 1937,  when he witnessed the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War firsthand and came to denounce would-be dictator Francisco Franco.  From 1938 to 1945 he lived in self-exile in Brazil.  At his death Bernanos left an unfilmed screenplay,  “Dialogues of the Carmelites”,  about 16 Carmelite nuns who were put to death during the French Revolution.  It was produced on the stage in 1952 and adapted into an opera (1957) by composer Francis Poulenc.  “The Diary of a Country Priest” was filmed by director Robert Bresson in 1951. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)