# Gaston Leroux

> He wrote The Phantom of the Opera, the 1910 novel that became the longest-running Broadway musical and a permanent fixture in pop culture. Before that, he built his reputation on locked-room detective fiction that still gets studied for its craft.

*French author and journalist (1868–1927)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1868-05-06
- **Died:** 1927-04-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was born 6 May 1868 in France and worked as a journalist before turning to detective fiction. In 1908 he published The Mystery of the Yellow Room, a locked-room mystery that became one of the most celebrated in the genre. Two years later came Le Fantôme de l'Opéra — The Phantom of the Opera — which would outlive everything else he did. The 1925 silent film with Lon Chaney made it a ghost story for the ages, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical turned it into the defining Broadway juggernaut. Leroux died 15 April 1927, decades before his Phantom became inescapable.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Writers, #Journalist, #Journalism, #Literature, #Fiction, #Screenwriting, #Theatre, #Law

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