Writer
1942 - 1995
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) 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... Read full bio →
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