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Gaston Leroux
Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was a French journalist and writer of detective fiction. Born in Paris, Leroux attended school in Normandy before returning to his home city to complete a degree in law. After squandering his inheritance, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic to avoid bankruptcy. As a journalist, Leroux earned a reputation as a leading international correspondent, particularly for his reporting on the 1905 Russian Revolution. In 1907, Leroux switched careers in order to become a professional fiction writer, focusing predominately on novels that could be turned into film scripts. With such novels as The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1908), Leroux established himself as a leading figure in detective fiction, eventually earning himself the title of Chevalier in the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award for merit. The Phantom of the Opera (1910), his most famous work, has been adapted countless times for theater, television, and film, most notably by Andrew Lloyd Webber in his 1986 musical of the same name.
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GASTON LEROUX
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born in Paris in 1868. In his youth he enjoyed sailing and fishing, and attended school in Caen, where he began writing poetry and short stories while studying the works of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He then travelled to Paris to study law, obtaining his degree in 1889 despite the fact that he had largely lost interest in the profession. When his father died in that same year, Leroux inherited a large amount of money, and lived wildly for a while, developing a taste for expensive food and wine and high-stakes gambling. In 1890 he started working as a court reporter and theatre critic for L’Écho de Paris, and then went on to become international correspondent for the Parisian newspaper Le Matin.
As a noted reporter, Leroux attended trials, interviewed prisoners, and observed executions by guillotine. He also travelled widely, finding himself in Russia during the 1905 revolution, and even getting as far as Asia and Africa, witnessing first-hand some remarkable events of his time. Leroux began to dabble in fiction, producing Seeking of the Morning’s Treasures in 1903, and four years later he abandoned journalism altogether to focus on his fiction. In 1908 he published The Mystery of the Yellow Room, starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Rouletabille went on to feature in a number of popular novels, and Leroux’s contribution to French detective fiction is now viewed as parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s in the United Kingdom. Aside from his detective fiction, Leroux is best-remembered in the English-speaking world for his 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, which has spawned a number of well-known adaptations.
Leroux died in Nice, France in 1927, having published almost fifty novels.
In Letters of Fire
Gaston Leroux
We had been out hunting wild boars all day, when we were overtaken by a violent storm, which compelled us to seek refuge in a deep cavern. It was Makoko, our guide, who took upon himself to give utterance to the thought which haunted the minds of the four of us who had sought safety from the fury of the tempest – Mathis, Allan, Makoko, and myself.