Boris Vian

Boris Vian was born in Ville-d'Avray on 10 March 1920, into a well-off family ruined by the crash of 1929. Affected young by a heart condition, he remained frail all his life. A graduate engineer of the École centrale, he worked from 1942 at the Association française de normalisation. A jazz trumpeter in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, he was also a jazz critic, translator and songwriter, and published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan crime novels that caused a scandal. He died in Paris on 23 June 1959.

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• NovelMood IndigoL'Écume des joursBoris Vian · 1947Literature