Guy Augustin Marie Jean de la Pérusse des Cars (6 May 1911 – 21 December 1993) was a best-selling French author of popular novels.

[1][2] Cars' father was a young military attache in London when at a Victorian debutante ball he met his future wife, the daughter of the President of Chile.

On board ship on his way back to France, he wrote a bright little comedy, Croisiere pour dames seules ('Cruise for Unattached Ladies') which ran for a hundred performances, much to the horror of his family.

des Cars started his writing career before World War II as a journalist, and wrote many different kinds of articles, from fashion to foreign policy.

[3] des Cars served in World War II and returned with the Croix de Guerre, and the manuscript of his first novel.