Maurice Leblanc

Born December 11, 1864· Rouen, France

† Died November 6, 1941

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Emerging from a merchant family, he spent part of his youth in Scotland before completing secondary studies at the Lycée Corneille and, after brief encounters with Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant, relocated to Paris in 1888 to devote himself to writing. Initially a journalist, he published his first successful novel in 1893 and later experimented with drama, but his lasting fame arose from… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources