J.-H. Rosny

[1] Together they wrote a series of novels and short stories about natural, prehistoric and fantasy subjects, published between 1886 and 1909, as well as several popular science works.

In 1887, the brothers were among the writers who entered a formal protest in Le Figaro newspaper against Émile Zola's La Terre.

[1] In 1903, the brothers were named to the first jury for the Prix Goncourt, an influential annual French literary award.

Of the two, the elder brother Joseph (J.-H. Rosny aîné) is somewhat better known and many of the joint Rosny works are incorrectly attributed only to the elder brother.

[citation needed] Of their books, The Quest for Fire is the best known, especially since it was made into a motion picture of the same name in 1981.