Pierre Boulle
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Educated as an engineer at the École supérieure d'électricité and later employed on rubber plantations in Malaya, Pierre Boulle combined technical training with wartime experience as a secret agent for the Free French, an episode that later informed his literary output. His first major success came with the 1952 novel about the Death Railway, which sold millions, earned the Prix Sainte-Beuve, and…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources