Gaston Leroux
Novelist, Author
1868 – 1927
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Who was Gaston Leroux?
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera, which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked room mysteries ever written.
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- Born
- May 6, 1868
Paris - Also known as
- Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux
- Leroux Gaston
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Jeanne Cayatte
(1917 - ) - Marie Lefranc
- Jeanne Cayatte
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 15, 1927
Nice - Resting place
- Cimetière du Château
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on July 23, 2013
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