WRITER

Gaston Leroux

1868 - 1927

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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (French pronunciation: [ɡastɔ̃ lwi alfʁɛd ləʁu]; 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 (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1909), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Leroux has received more than 709,041 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Gaston Leroux is the 541st most popular writer (down from 485th in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from France (down from 577th in 2019) and the 96th most popular French Writer.

Gaston Leroux is most famous for writing the novel "The Phantom of the Opera."

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.60

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  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaston Leroux ranks 541 out of 7,302. Before him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Paul Claudel, T. S. Eliot, and Bai Juyi. After him are Saint Naum, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Eugenio Montale, Frantz Fanon, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and Gustav Meyrink.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Gaston Leroux ranks 19. Before him are Fuad I of Egypt, Arnold Sommerfeld, Florence Foster Jenkins, Peter Behrens, Theodore William Richards, and Paul Claudel. After him are Gustav Meyrink, Huo Yuanjia, Gertrude Bell, Robert Falcon Scott, Dietrich Eckart, and August Horch. Among people deceased in 1927, Gaston Leroux ranks 9. Before him are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Willem Einthoven, Juan Gris, Ferdinand I of Romania, Albrecht Kossel, and Carlota of Mexico. After him are Andranik, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Kang Youwei, Hugo Ball, Georg Brandes, and Jerome K. Jerome.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 634 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Renault (1877), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Léon Walras (1834), and Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837). After him are Paul Doumer (1857), Albert Fert (1938), Chlodomer (495), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Hugues de Payens (1074), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Gaston Leroux ranks 96. Before him are Anaïs Nin (1903), Alfred Jarry (1873), Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), and Paul Claudel (1868). After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), and Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922).

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