Maurice Dekobra (May 26/28, 1885 – June 2, 1973)

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Maurice Dekobra (1885, May 26 or 28, Paris – 1973, June 2) was a French writer. His real name was Ernest Maurice Tessier. Seen as a subversive writer in the 1920s and 1930s, he became one of the best-known French writers between the First and the Second World Wars. His books have been translated into 77 languages. In spite of this, he has now been declared a "total unknown".

At the age of 19, he started his career as a trilingual journalist - French, English, German. The term 'dekobrisme' was coined from his fiction, which used journalistic features in his novels. He chose to live in the United States from 1939 to 1946. Upon returning to France, he started writing whodunits.

Some of his novels were made into films.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Dekobra