[1] Born in Paris on 25 February 1963, his full name was Pierre Guillaume Louis Ferdinand Marie Michel Gédéon de Roux.

He collaborated with multiple publications such as Arthus, Contrepoint, Revue des deux Mondes, Latitudes, Le Quotidien de Paris, L'Appel, Magazine hebdo [fr].

[4] In 1990, he was one of the founding members of Éditions Criterion of Média-Participations,[5] where he would support the contemporary literary movement La Nouvelle Fiction.

[13] He served as literary director of Éditions du Rocher from 2001 to 2006, and left the publisher fully in 2008 following a disagreement over his editorial policies.

[16] Pierre-Guillaume de Roux died following a long illness on 11 February 2021 at the age of 57, fourteen days short from his 58th birthday.