Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets,
France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas began writing at an early age and saw his first
success in a play he wrote entitled Henri III et sa Cour (1829). A
prolific author, Dumas was also an adventurer and took part in the
Revolution of 1830. Dumas is most famous for his brilliant
historical novels, which he wrote with collaborators, mainly
Auguste Maquet, and which were serialized in the popular press of
the day. His most popular works are The Three Musketeers(1844), The
Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45), and The Man in Iron Mask
(1848-50). Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless
on on December 5, 1870.
Joachim Neugroschelhas won three PEN translation awards and the
French-American translation prize. He has alsotranslated Thomas
Mann's Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, both for
Penguin Classics.He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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