Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux was born in Paris in 1868 and grew up in Normandy. He studied law in Paris and briefly practiced it, but after spending an inheritance he turned to journalism, first as a court reporter and theater critic and then as an international correspondent for the newspaper Le Matin. He reported from Russia during the revolution of 1905 and traveled widely. In 1907 he left journalism to write fiction. His detective novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907–1908), featuring the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille, is a celebrated 'locked room' mystery in which a crime seems to have been committed in a sealed room. The Phantom of the Opera (1909–1910), serialized before appearing as a book, tells of a masked, disfigured genius who haunts the Paris Opera House and falls in love with a young singer, Christine Daaé. It was later adapted many times, including the 1925 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Leroux founded a film company and died in Nice in 1927.

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