Jean-Patrick Manchette

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1942. December 19.
  • Place of birth: 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 fiction author of that ...

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