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Gaston Leroux
For other people named Gaston Leroux, see Gaston Leroux (disambiguation).
French author and journalist
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (French pronunciation:[ɡastɔ̃lwialfʁɛdləʁu]; 6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) 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 (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1909), 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 1907 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked room mysteries.
Life and career
Leroux was born in Paris in 1868, the illegitimate child of Marie Bidaut and Dominique Leroux, who married a month after his birth.
He claimed an illustrious pedigree, including descent from William II of England (in French, Guillaume le Roux), son of William the Conquer