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Michel Verne
1861–1925
Best known as Jules Verne’s son, he also built a literary life of his own through adventure fiction, editing, and filmmaking. His career sits at the crossroads of family legacy and the changing world of popular storytelling in early 20th-century France.
1 Audiobook
In the year 2889
by Michel Verne, Jules Verne
About the author
Born in Paris in 1861, Michel Verne was a French novelist, editor, and later a filmmaker. He is most often remembered in connection with his father, Jules Verne, but he also published adventure novels under his own name and worked in the same imaginative tradition that made the Verne family famous.
After Jules Verne’s death, he became closely involved with his father’s literary estate and is associated with the editing and publication of several posthumous works. That role has made him a complicated figure in Verne studies: for some readers he helped preserve and extend the family legacy, while for others he blurred the line between his father’s final manuscripts and his own contributions.
He is especially linked with titles such as The Lighthouse at the End of the World, The Golden Volcano, and The Thompson Travel Agency. Michel Verne died in 1925 in Toulon, leaving behind a career that remains interesting not only because of his famous surname, but because it shows how adventure fiction was shaped, revised, and passed on from one generation to the next.