Manchette, Jean-Patrick

Photo: Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images (1979)

Country/Region:: France
Born:: December 19, 1942
Dead:: June 3, 1995
Genres:: Children's literature, Crime literature, Drama, Miscellaneous prose, Children's literature

The presentation was last updated November 19, 2024

Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French author credited for having revolutionised noir fiction in France. He was born in Marseille. In 1945, the family moved to Malakoff in the Paris area. In 1960, after finishing his upper-secondary education, he moved to Paris where he spent most of his life and where he read English at the Sorbonne.

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