Pierre La Mure

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Pierre La Mure (1909 - 1976, California) was a French author. He wrote the 1950 novel Moulin Rouge about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also wrote the book Beyond Desire about the life of Cecile and Felix Mendelssohn and the biographical novel "Claire de Lune" on the life and struggles of French composer Claude Debussy, published in 1962.

Bibliography:

  • John D. Rockefeller (1937)
  • Gongs in the Night, Reaching the Tribes of French Indo - China (1943)
  • Moulin Rouge; a novel based on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (American edition 1950)
  • Beyond Desire: A Novel Based on the Life of Felix and Cécile Mendelssohn (1955), ISBN 0871402068
  • Clair de lune,: A novel about Claude Debussy (1962)
  • The private life of Mona Lisa (1975), ISBN 0316513008
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