Novelist · 1802 – 1870
Alexandre Dumas
Little-Known Facts
- He worked with a team of collaborators to produce his enormous output of novels and plays.
- His grandmother was an enslaved woman in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti).
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Dumas write all his books alone?
He used collaborators, most notably Auguste Maquet, to research and draft material, but the storytelling flair and final voice were unmistakably Dumas's own.