author
Maurice Le Glay
1868–1936
A French army officer turned writer, he drew on years spent in North Africa to write vivid books about Morocco, mixing firsthand observation with storytelling.
2 Audiobooks
Récits marocains de la plaine et des monts
by Maurice Le Glay
La mort du Rogui
by Maurice Le Glay
About the author
Born in Bordeaux in 1868, Maurice Le Glay built his early career in the French army. Sources agree that he served as an artillery and political officer in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, and later moved into a civil post in 1918 before devoting himself more fully to writing.
His books and articles focused largely on Morocco, a subject he knew from direct experience. Bibliographic records and public-domain listings show that works such as Récits marocains de la plaine et des monts and La mort du Rogui helped establish him as a writer of colonial-era literature centered on North Africa.
Le Glay died in Casablanca on April 3, 1936. Today he is remembered less as a major literary celebrity than as a witness-writer whose career joined military service, administration, and literature in the French colonial world.