Guy de Maupassant is otherwise known as Henri Rene Albert. He was born on August 5, 1850, in Château de Miromesnil, Normandy, France. Maupassant was the first child of Laure Le Poittevin and Gustave de Maupassant. Maupassant took as his essential objective the realistic depiction of his everyday life. He expounded on what he knew best, and that was as a laborer of his local home Normandy, the war of 1870, and his own fears and hallucinations.
Guy de Maupassant considered to be the father of modern short stories. He was not only a writer of short stories but also an author for some collections of novels, travel journals and poetry. He wrote his first work titled “Boule de suif” (“Ball of fat”), a story that was later included in the collection of stories called “Les Soirées de Médan” (“Evenings at Medan”). His participation in social literary circle allowed him to meet important writers and also developed a strong interest in literature. He went on to write more than two hundred stories, including La Maison Tellier (1881), Mademoiselle Fifi (1882), Contes de la Bécasse (1883), The Necklace (1884 ), the famous La Parure (1884), and Le Horla (1887). Particularly, Guy de Maupassant's story 'The Necklace' is noted for its concluding twist or sarcastic ending, which was a hallmark of Maupassant's writing style, as well as for taking place in the nineteenth century.
His short stories were viewed as masterpieces of economy, lucidity, and traditional in their conventional effortlessness, exceptionally fluctuated in their topic and distinctly reminiscent in their portrayals. Maupassant is considered one of the finest short story writers of all time and a champion on his approach of simplicity when writing. Maupassant died on July 6, 1893, of complications resulting from syphilis, in a sanitarium in Paris.