Guy des Cars

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.

Cover of The Damned One, 1956
Cover of The Damned One, 1956