BIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITER.
Students who studying literature is compulsory to make some research about writer’s biography to get some ideas about the factors that will influence of their writing. Thus, students will be clear why and how the writer wanted to write about something events which happened around them during those particular years.
In the novel phantom of the opera, the writer is known as Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux. He was born on 6 May 1868 in Paris, France. Fundamentally, he was a well – known French journalist and author of detective fiction. However, in the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Besides, it was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay which is very popular around Europe.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. In 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Surprisingly, he suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fictions as his passions. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède made a further step by forming their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films.
Then,he first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. To be proud, Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Sadly, Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, due to the urinary tract infection.
Students who studying literature is compulsory to make some research about writer’s biography to get some ideas about the factors that will influence of their writing. Thus, students will be clear why and how the writer wanted to write about something events which happened around them during those particular years.
In the novel phantom of the opera, the writer is known as Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux. He was born on 6 May 1868 in Paris, France. Fundamentally, he was a well – known French journalist and author of detective fiction. However, in the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Besides, it was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay which is very popular around Europe.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. In 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Surprisingly, he suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fictions as his passions. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède made a further step by forming their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films.
Then,he first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. To be proud, Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Sadly, Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, due to the urinary tract infection.
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