Writer
1920 - 1959
Boris Vian
Ville-d'Avray, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal... Read full bio →