Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of December 5th.
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It is the 339th day of the year, leaving 26 days in 2021.
Dumas was a swashbuckling novelist. Rather, he wrote novels with swashbuckling stories, including The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Three Musketeers. He was also a playwright and a travel writer.
He started his writing career as a successful dramatist; his first two plays, Henry the III and His Courts, and Christine, opened to popular acclaim.
He was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie in 1802 in Picardy, France. He wrote under the surname of his grandmother, Marie-Cessette Dumas, an enslaved woman of African and Caribbean descent. His father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was born in what is now Haiti and was the son of a French nobleman,. Still a boy, his father moved with his father to France, and later became the first general in the French Army of African-Caribbean descent.
Dumas' writings covered more than 100,000 pages. His books have been translated into multiple languages. His works have been adapted into movies, shows, and plays more than 200 times.
He is buried near his hometown. One hundred years after his death, the Paris Metro named a station after him. His one-time country home outside Paris has been restored into a museum and is open to the public.
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