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Born May 6, 1868 • Paris • France
Died April 15, 1927 or April 16, 1927 • Nice • France
Notable Works “The Phantom of the Opera”
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author
Petrus Borel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by C.-F. Nanteuil-Leboeuf, 1839
Petrus Borel
French author
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Émile Gaboriau
French author
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Maurice Leblanc
French author and journalist
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Georges Simenon.
Georges Simenon
Belgian-French author
Green, Anna Katharine
Anna Katharine Green
American author
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Carolyn Wells
American writer
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Ross Macdonald
American author
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Earl Derr Biggers
American novelist and playwright
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Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
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Jean Tharaud
French writer
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Émile Erckmann
French author
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Maurice Druon
French author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
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Louis-Alexandre Chatrian
French author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer