Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux Is a French writer, he spent her childhood in a coastal village. He studied law and he worked as a writer in local newspapers, first in poetry and then as a dramatic critic. He traveled as a reporter for Sweden, Finland, England, Egypt, Korea, Morocco and Russia, I report the first stages of the revolution. Although his work had time to write four novels that were published as serials in newspapers of Paris. In 1907 he wrote the novel that became his first literary success: The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Leroux writea lot of horror novels including La Double Vie de Theophraste Longuet and La Reine du Sabbat. By 1909, he quit his newspaper job and devote himself entirely to writing. Leroux believed in ghostly beings in the afterlife. His most famous work is The Phantom of the Opera. During his last years of life enjoyed moderate fame. He died in 1927 at 59 years of age because of an infection.

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