When he was caught stealing, he spent part of his adolescence at a reform  school which laid the basis for his The Miracle of the Rose.
When he was caught stealing, he spent part of his adolescence at a reform  school which laid the basis for his The Miracle of the Rose. The Thief's  Journal gives an account of his life as a tramp, pickpocket, and male  prositiute. When he was sentenced to life in prison, a group of French  writer's intervened on his behalf and obtained a reprieve. Although not  remembered for his novels, he did write the notable Our Lady of the Flowers.  FTP, who is this French author of plays such as The Blacks, The Screens, and  The Balcony?
When he was caught stealing, he spent part of his adolescence at a reform  school which laid the basis for his The Miracle of the Rose.
Jean Genet