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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux
(1868 –1927) was born in Paris. He went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Leroux initially worked as a critic and court reporter for the newspapers L'Écho de Paris and Le Matin. He suddenly left journalism in 1907 and began writing fiction. In 1919, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans, to publish novels and simultaneously turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel titled The Mystery of the Yellow Room, starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in the United States. Leroux was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1909. He died at his home in Nice, France Source: wikipedia.org