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[[File:Firma de Dominique Lapierre.svg|thumb|Signature of Dominique Lapierre]]
'''Dominique Lapierre''' (30 July 1931 – 2 December 2022) was a French author.

==Life==
Dominique Lapierre was born in [[Châtelaillon-Plage]], Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he travelled to the U.S. with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France). He attended the Jesuit school in [[New Orleans]] and became a [[paper boy]] for the ''[[New Orleans Item-Tribune|New Orleans Item]]''. He developed interests in travelling, writing, and cars.

Lapierre renovated a 1927 [[Nash Motors|Nash]] that his mother gave him and decided to travel across the United States during his summer holidays. To earn his way he painted mail boxes. Later, he received a scholarship to study the [[Aztec civilization]] in Mexico. He hitch-hiked throughout the U.S. living an adventurous existence, wrote articles, washed windows in churches, gave lectures, and even found a job as a siren cleaner on a boat returning to Europe. One day a truck driver who picked him up on the road to [[Chicago]] stole his suitcase. He found the driver before the police did. The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' paid him $100 for his exclusive story. His twenty thousand miles of adventure beginning with just thirty dollars in his pocket led to his first book ''A Dollar for a Thousand kilometers''. It became one of the best sellers of postwar France and other European countries.

==Early work==
When Lapierre was eighteen, he received a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholarship]] to study economics at [[Lafayette College]] in [[Easton, Pennsylvania]], where he was graduated in 1952.<ref>((Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Brian |date=21 December 2022 |title=Author of Historical Narratives that Sold Over 50 Million Copies Worldwide |volume=146 |page=B4 |newspaper=Washington Post |issue=53341))</ref> That year he bought a 1937 [[Chrysler]] convertible for $30 and fell in love with a fashion editor. They were married in [[New York City Hall]] on his 21st birthday and drove to Mexico in the old Chrysler for their honeymoon. With only $300 in their pockets, they had just enough to buy gas, sandwiches, and cheap rooms in truckers’ motels. In Los Angeles, they won another $300 in a radio game show for [[Campbell Soup Company|Campbell Soup]]. The prize included a case of soup, which was their only food for three weeks. Lapierre sold the Chrysler for $400 in San Francisco and bought two tickets on the [[SS President Cleveland (1947)|SS ''President Cleveland'']] for Japan. The honeymoon lasted for a year. They worked their way across Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Lebanon. When they returned to France, Lapierre wrote his second book, ''Honeymoon around the Earth''.

==Collaboration with Larry Collins==
On his return to Paris after his honeymoon, he was conscripted into the French army. After one year in the tank regiment, he was transferred to the [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe|SHAPE]] headquarters to serve as an interpreter. One day in the cafeteria he met a young American corporal, [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], a Yale graduate and draftee. They became friends instantly. When Collins was discharged he was offered a job with [[Procter & Gamble]]. Two days before reporting to the new job, the [[United Press International|United Press]] offered him a job as caption writer at their Paris office, for much less money than offered by Procter & Gamble. Collins took the offer from United Press and was soon picked up by ''[[Newsweek]]'' to be their correspondent in the Middle East. When Lapierre was discharged, he found work as a reporter for the magazine ''[[Paris Match]]''. Collins became the godfather of the Lapierres' first child, Alexandra. On several occasions, Collins and Lapierre met while on assignment. In spite of their friendship they had to compete with each other for stories. But they decided to join forces to tell a big story which would appeal to both French and anglophone audiences. Their first bestseller ''[[Is Paris Burning? (book)|Is Paris Burning?]]'' sold close to ten million copies in thirty languages. In this book they mixed the modern technique of investigation journalism with the classical methods of historical research.

After that they spent four years in Jerusalem to reconstruct the birth of the [[State of Israel]] for the book ''[[O Jerusalem!]]''. Lapierre was proud that after spending a great deal of time in Jerusalem he knew each alley, square, street, and building in the Holy City intimately.

Two of Lapierre's books&nbsp;– ''Is Paris Burning?'' (co-written with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]]) and ''[[City of Joy]]''&nbsp;– have been made into films. Lapierre and Collins wrote several other books together, the last being ''[[Is New York Burning?]]'' (2005), before Collins' death in 2005.

Lapierre spoke fluent [[Bengali language|Bengali]].((Citation needed|date=March 2009))

==City of Joy Foundation and other humanitarian causes==
The ''City of Joy'' is about the unsung heroes of the Pilkhana slum in Kolkata. Lapierre donated half the royalties he earned from this book to support several humanitarian projects in Kolkata, including refuge centres for leper and polio children, dispensaries, schools, rehabilitation workshops, education programs, sanitary actions, and hospital boats. To process and channel the charitable funds he founded an association called Action aid for Calcutta lepers' children (registered in France under the official name of ''Action pour les enfants des lépreux de Calcutta''). Aware of the corruption in India, he organized all his fund transfers to India in such a way as to ensure that the money reaches the right person for the right purpose. His wife since 1980, Dominique Conchon-Lapierre was his partner in the City of Joy Foundation.

The royalties from ''[[Five Past Midnight in Bhopal]]'' go to the Sambhavna clinic in Bhopal which provides free medical treatment to the victims of the 1984 Union Carbide [[Bhopal disaster]]. Lapierre also funded a primary school in Oriya Basti, one of the settlements described in ''Five Past Midnight in Bhopal''.

==Passion for cars and travelling==
At the age of six, he developed a passion for automobiles. Each summer, while at his grandparents' Atlantic coast beach house, he marvelled at the wonders of his uncle's American cars. When he was a Fulbright exchange student at Lafayette College, he bought, for thirty dollars, a convertible [[Chrysler Royal]] he found in a [[Wrecking yard|junkyard]]. Forty-five years later, he saw a photograph of the same Chrysler in a French vintage car magazine. The automobile was about to be auctioned in Poitiers. He rushed to the auction, made a bid, and won it. When he was a student at the [[University of Paris]], he acquired an old Amil car, which he and a classmate drove all the way to [[Ankara]], Turkey. He has told stories about how he drove the car in reverse to have enough torque to get through the mountain passes. Later, in a [[List of Rolls-Royce motor cars|Rolls-Royce]] he bought on his fortieth birthday, he drove from Bombay to Saint Tropez via Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey.

==Death==

Lapierre died on 2 December 2022, at the age of 91.<ref>((cite news |last1=Risen |first1=Clay |date=11 December 2022 |title=Dominique Lapierre, 91, Dies; Popular Author Wrote 'Is Paris Burning?' |volume=172 |page=A31 |work=The New York Times |issue=59634 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/books/dominique-lapierre-dead.html))</ref>

==Awards==
Lapierre was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]], India's third highest civilian award in the 2008 Republic Day honours list.<ref>((cite web|title=Padma Bhushan a gift from Sundarbans: Lapierre|url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Padma-Bhushan-a-gift-from-Sundarbans-Lapierre/304861/|access-date=3 May 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723150202/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Padma-Bhushan-a-gift-from-Sundarbans-Lapierre/304861/|archive-date=23 July 2008))</ref>

==Bibliography==

=== Novels ===
* ''[[The Fifth Horseman (novel)|The Fifth Horseman]]'' (''Le Cinquième Cavalier'') (1980), with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], ((ISBN|0-671-24316-0))
* ''[[City of Joy|The City of Joy]]'' (''La Cité de la joie'') (1985), ((ISBN|0-385-18952-4))
* ''Beyond Love'' (''Plus grands que l'amour'') (1990), ((ISBN|0-446-51438-1))
* ''[[Is New York Burning?]]'' (''New-York brûle-t-il?'') (2005), with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], ((ISBN|1-59777-520-7))

=== Non-fiction ===
;Autobiographies:
* ''A Thousand Suns'' (''Mille soleil'') (1999), memoir, ((ISBN|0-446-52535-9))
* ''India mon amour'' (''Inde ma bien-aimée'') (2010), memoir, ((ISBN|978-8-8428-1681-2))

;Biographies:
* ''Chessman Told Me'' (''Chessman m'a dit'') (1960)
* ''[[Or I'll Dress You in Mourning]]'' (''...Ou tu porteras mon deuil'') (1968), with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]]

;History:
* ''[[Is Paris Burning? (book)|Is Paris Burning?]]'' (''Paris brûle-t-il?'') (1965), with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], ((ISBN|9780785812463))
* ''[[O Jerusalem!]]'' (''Ô Jérusalem'') (1972), with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], ((ISBN|0-671-21163-3))
* ''[[Freedom at Midnight]]'' (''Cette nuit la liberté'') (1975), with [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]], ((ISBN|0-671-22088-8))
* ''[[Five Past Midnight in Bhopal]]'' (''Il était minuit cinq à Bhopal'') (2001), with [[Javier Moro]], ((ISBN|0-446-53088-3))
* ''A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa'' (''Un arc-en-ciel dans la nuit'') (2008), ((ISBN|978-1-4332-9156-2))

;Travels:
* ''A Dollar for a Thousand Miles'' (''Un dollar les mille kilomètres'') (1949)
* ''Once Upon a Time in The Soviet Union'' (''Il était une fois l'URSS'') (2005) with [[Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini]], ((ISBN|978-81-216-1247-0)) — chronicles a 1956 journey he took across the [[Soviet Union]] with [[Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini]]
* ''Honeymoon around the Earth'' (''Lune de miel autour de la Terre'') (2005)

== Adaptations ==
* ''[[Is Paris Burning? (film)|Is Paris Burning?]]'' (1966), film directed by [[René Clément]], based on book ''[[Is Paris Burning? (book)|Is Paris Burning?]]''
* ''[[City of Joy (1992 film)|City of Joy]]'' (1992), film directed by [[Roland Joffé]], based on novel ''[[City of Joy]]''
* ''A cloud over Bhopal'' (2001), documentary directed by [[Gerardo Olivares]] and Larry Levene, based on book ''[[Five Past Midnight in Bhopal]]''

* [[O Jerusalem (film)]] in 2006 by [[Elie Chouraqui]]
* ''[[Viceroy's House (film)|Viceroy's House]]'' (2017), film directed by [[Gurinder Chadha]], based on book ''[[Freedom at Midnight]]''

==References==
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*((cite news |last1=Bose |first1=Raktima |title=Dominique Lapierre's joys |url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/06/stories/2009020656262000.htm |date=6 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412200001/http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/06/stories/2009020656262000.htm |url-status=dead |work=[[The Hindu]] |archive-date=12 April 2009))
* ((cite news|title=Dominique Lapierre questions ban on Bhopal gas tragedy book |url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/dominique-lapierre-questions-ban-on-bhopal-gas-tragedy-book_100219379.html |website=Thaindian News |agency=IANS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621235507/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/dominique-lapierre-questions-ban-on-bhopal-gas-tragedy-book_100219379.html |archive-date=June 21, 2010 |date=17 July 2009))

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