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Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name used by the French crime-writing duo of Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, also known as Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908 – 7 June 1998). Their successful collaboration produced 43 novels, 100 short stories and 4 plays.
Pierre Ayraud, dit Thomas Narcejac, né à Rochefort-sur-Mer le 3 juillet 1908 et mort à Nice le 7 juin 1998, est un écrivain français, auteur de romans policiers. Il a aussi publié sous le pseudonyme John-Silver Lee, ainsi que sous le nom de plume commun Boileau-Narcejac partagé avec Pierre Louis Boileau.
Thomas Narcejac was born on 3 July 1908 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France. He was a writer, known for Vertigo (1958), Diabolique (1955) and Eyes Without a Face (1960). He died on 9 June 1998 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Jul 5, 1998 · Thomas Narcejac, a high school teacher who went on to write best-selling novels, died on June 7 in Nice, France. He was 89. Mr. Narcejac's highly successful...
Jun 7, 1998 · French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Boileau, to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac. In 1948 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, for La Mort est du Voyage .
For any good cinephile the standard line is that on its way to the screen Vertigo (1958) radically transformed its original source material, the (relatively) obscure French mystery novel written by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, more commonly known by the portmanteau moniker “Boileau-Narcejac.”
Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated.
