Online discussion: The Author

The Author
Alexander Dumas, the writer of The Three Musketeers, led a very interesting and complicated life. The son of a major general in Napoleon’s army, he lost his dad when he was the age of four. At first Alexander tried to become a lawyer in the house of Duc d’Orleans. While he was there he kept writing plays and drama, and eventually got himself trapped into a liaison with the dressmaker Marie Catherine Labay, with whom they had the next Alexander Dumas. In the 1840’s Dumas produced with which his fame rests. He did this by having some of his co-workers go find information on the subject and write the outline of the story and then he would finish writing the play. He wrote many famous books, but the best one in my opinion would be The Three Musketeers. This book is a classic sword in hand novel that emphasizes all the good things about French people. His other famous novels were: Count of Monte Cristo, and a series about the last Valios Kings. He eventually built a home and a theater for his own use. The theater was failing and so was his means, but as the French revolution was coming he had to leave, and therefore got time to get his financial needs in order. He dies in his son’s house on December 5, 1870.


Masterplots cyclopedia of world authors, fifteen hundred and ten, 1958, pg:321