He wrote the novels Funeral Rites and Querelle of Brest shortly after his first effort, a depiction of the Montmartre underworld entitled Notre-Dame des fleurs, or Our Lady of the Flowers. In Miracle of the Rose he described 
He wrote the novels Funeral Rites and Querelle of Brest shortly after his first effort, a depiction of the Montmartre underworld entitled Notre-Dame des fleurs, or Our Lady of the Flowers. In Miracle of the Rose he described the time he spent as a child at the notorious Mettray reform school. Experimental plays like Deathwatch, The Blacks, and The Screens made him a leading Absurdist playwright, while the autobiographical The Thief's Journal famously described his life as a pickpocket and prostitute. FTP, who was this Frenchman, author of The Maids and The Balcony?
He wrote the novels Funeral Rites and Querelle of Brest shortly after his first effort, a depiction of the Montmartre underworld entitled Notre-Dame des fleurs, or Our Lady of the Flowers.
Jean Genet