After visiting the studios of several Argentine artists in the company of the young Director of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires Rafael Squirru, Malraux declared the new vanguard to lie in Argentina's new artistic movements.
There, after many years, literary acquaintances, including Montherlant, Kazantzakis, and Malraux urged her to publish.
In 1963 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, succeeding Paul Léon - Malraux's father André Malraux voted against his election.
He is mainly known to the public because of his biographies, including the lives of Ho Chi Minh, Nasser, Léon Blum, De Gaulle, François Mauriac, Pierre Mendès-France, Mitterrand, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Malraux, Germaine Tillion, Champollion, Rivière, Stendhal and Kennedy.