Gaston Leroux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gaston Leroux

French writer

Date of Birth: 06-May-1868

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 15-Apr-1927

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. 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, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked-room mysteries.