Gaston Leroux
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris, Île-de-France, France on May 6th, 1868 and is the Novelist. At the age of 58, Gaston Leroux biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gaston Louis Leroux (6 May 1868 – 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. He is best known for writing The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been turned into several film and stage productions of the same name, including 1925's starring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
The Mysteries of the Yellow Room is one of the most well-known locked-room mysteries.
Life and career
Leroux was born in 1868 in Paris. He went to Paris, where he completed his law studies in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived a long life before coming to bankruptcy. He began serving as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris in 1890. When he first began working as an international correspondent for Le Matin, he discovered his most notable journalism. He was present at and covered the 1905 Russian Revolution.
In another case in which he was present was him participating in the investigation and in-depth coverage of the former Paris Opera (currently housing the Paris Ballet). A cell was found in the basement that held prisoners of the Paris Commune.
In 1907, he stopped writing poetry and began writing fiction. He and Arthur Bernède founded Société des Cinéromans in 1919, publishing books and converting them into films. Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908), his first book, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, starring amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille, was released in England. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a follower to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe in the United States.
In 1909-1909 and 1910, Leroux published his most popular piece, The Phantom of the Opera, as a serial and a book in 1910 (with an English translation appearing in 1911). Balaoo went back to 1911, which was turned into a film several times (in 1913, 1927, and 1942).
In 1909, Leroux was appointed a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur. In 1927, he died in Nice, France, at the age of 58.
