Artist · France
“Erich Erdstein”
Jean-Patrick Manchette
1942
Marseille
France
comics artist
comics writer
1995
Jean-Patrick Manchette.
France, 1942 to 1995
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942 to 3 June 1995) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society.
Biodata
- Born
- 1942, Marseille
- Died
- 1995, 12th arrondissement of Paris
- Citizenship
- France
- Work
- comics artist, comics writer, screenwriter, writer
- Also known as
- Erich Erdstein, Général-Baron Staff, Pierre Duchesne, Shuto Headline
Jean-Patrick Manchette, in numbers
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