Alexandre Dumas
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“All for one, and one for all.”
Does this quote ring a bell? Most likely. Everyone is familiar with the beloved tale of the Three Musketeers, which has seen several movie adaptations over the years. But how familiar are you with its author?
Alexandre Dumas is of Haitian and French descent. Because of his father’s successful military career, Dumas was afforded the opportunity to work for Louis-Philippe – the Duke of Orléans – as a writer, which spurred his own success with articles and plays. Though he began as a playwright, Dumas had his hands in many genres and, over his lifetime, wrote 100,000 pages of literature. He founded a production studio to create serial novels for papers, and even founded and published his own paper L’Indépendent during his time living in Italy.
While he is most known for his novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, his short novel, Georges, addresses discrimination he faced as a person of mixed race and the impact of colonialism.
