Henri Charrière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henri Charrière

French convict and author

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1906

Place of Birth: Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1973

Profession: screenwriter, writer, criminal, memoirist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Henri Charrière (French pronunciation: ?[?~?i ?a?j??]; 16 November 1906 – 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts.
He wrote the novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana.
While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book’s material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself.
Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.