Guillaume Dustan

[2] Dustan's 1998 novel, In My Room, brought the author instant notoriety for his masterful use of autofiction and depiction of gay glamour and romance in mid-1990s Paris.

Dustan's first novel, Dans ma chambre (In My Room) (1996), brought him immense fame in France for his ambitious portrayal of gay life in a Paris celebrated for its sensual pleasures and haunted by the AIDS crisis.

[5] In 2004, Dustan played a role in the film Process written & directed by C. S. Leigh, as the employee who checked Béatrice Dalle's character into the hotel where she later took her own life.

Edited by Thomas Clerc and translated by Daniel Maroun, the novels follow the narrator's sexual journeys in Paris.

[7] He was a contemporary of such gay writers as Herve Guibert, Dennis Cooper, Kevin Killian, and Gary Indiana.