Georges Le Faure

Born in Paris on June 12, 1856, Georges Le Faure became a journalist, novelist, playwright, and later a screenwriter. Reference sources agree that he wrote across many forms and genres over a remarkably long career, and that he died in Paris on May 25, 1953.

He is especially remembered for popular fiction and for some notably early science-fiction work. Among his best-known books is the multi-volume Les Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe, written with Henry de Graffigny, a space-travel saga that shows the influence of Jules Verne while anticipating later scientific adventure stories. Other accounts also note that he published serial fiction under pseudonyms and worked in genres ranging from detective stories and espionage to swashbuckling adventure.

Le Faure may not be as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, but his range was impressive. He wrote for mass audiences, embraced new media including cinema, and left behind a body of work that captures the restless, imaginative energy of popular French storytelling in his era.