Books by Alexandre Dumas (& Son!) - Page 2

Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (or Dumas père 1802-1870) was a proloific French writer of historical novels & plays. The grandson of a black slave, his father Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806) was a military man whose life was recently recounted in Tom Reiss' 'The Black Count' & is also a character in 1 of the 'Assassin's Creed' video games. Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895) was his illegitimate son whose writing career didn't match his father's & is today known only for the much-filmed 'Camille' or 'The Lady of the Camellias', which was also the basis for the opera 'La Traviata'. Not all his works are listed here.