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



Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 November 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.



Leblanc also wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux (1919), in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians, and Le Formidable Evènement (1920), in which an earthquake creates a new landmass between England and France.



Leblanc was awarded the "Légion d'Honneur" for his services to literature.