For other people named Gaston Leroux, see Gaston Leroux (disambiguation).
French author and journalist
Gaston Leroux
Leroux in 1907
Born
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868-05-06)6 May 1868 Paris, France
Died
15 April 1927(1927-04-15) (aged 58) Nice, France
Occupation
Journalist, author
Nationality
French
Notable works
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (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.
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(chap. I), Causeries (chap. IX) and Mes Mémoires (chap. CCXVIII). GastonLeroux also mentions it in The Phantom of the Opera (chap. VI). Herman Melville...
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