Biography
Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) was a French writer of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known for his long collaboration with Thomas Narcejac, writing under the joint pseudonym Boileau-Narcejac. Together they produced more than forty novels, many of which were adapted for the screen.
Their novel D'entre les morts (1954) was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). Boileau-Narcejac also wrote the screenplay for Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1960). Earlier, Boileau had written solo novels, including the Prix du Roman d’Aventures winner Le Repos de Bacchus (1938).
