Biographie de Maurice Leblanc
Maurice LEBLANC was born in 1864 in Rouen. From a young age he dreamt of being a writer, and in 1905 his early work caught the attention of Pierre Lafitte, editor of the popular magazine Je Sais Tout. He commissioned Leblanc to write a detective story, so the aspiring writer composed "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin", which proved hugely popular. His first collection of stories was published in book form in 1907 and he went on to write numerous stories and novels featuring Arsène Lupin.
He died in 1941 in Perpignan.