Maurice Leblanc

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Aliases:
モーリス・ルブラン, Mūrīs Lūblān, Mūrīs Liblān, and 38 others Marie Émile Maurice Leblanc, モオリス ルブラン, Maurize Leblanc, Моріс Леблан, M. Leblanc, Леблан, מוריס לבלאן, Mauricius Leblanc, Morisŭ Lŭbŭllang, Moris Leblan, М Леблан, لوبلان، موريس, モーリス ルブラン, Leblanc, موريس لوبلان،, Moris Lüblan, مۆریس لۆبلان, Moriss Leblāns, 모리스 르블랑, Maurice Leblan, Maurycy Leblang, Maurycy Leblanc, موريس لوبلان, モリス ルブラン, מוריס לבלן, لبلان، موريس, มอริส เลอบล็อง, Морис Леблан, Морис Льоблан, M. Leblan, 莫理斯·盧布朗, موریس لوبلان, M ルブラン, موريس لبلان،, Mauricio Leblanc, Maurice Leblanc, モーリス ル・ブラン, لبلان، موريس،
Born:
Dec. 10, 1864
Died:
Nov. 5, 1941

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Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.

The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. 6, dated 15 July 1905. Clearly created at editorial request, it’s possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief. Leblanc's house in Étretat, today the museum Le clos Arsène Lupin.

By 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories. Like Conan Doyle, who often appeared embarrassed or hindered by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more "respectable" literary ambitions, Leblanc …

Books by Maurice Leblanc