This profile celebrates the life and works of Gaston Leroux. All of the works listed here are in the public domain. This profile is maintained by the Wattpad Ambassadors.



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 films 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 also one of the most famous locked-room mysteries ever.