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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (2012), a biographyby Tom Reiss, surveys the life of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a Haitian French Revolutionary soldier (later general) who went on to father the famous writer Alexandre Dumas.

Reiss chronicles Dumas’s early life as a slave sold by his father, and moves through his initiation into the French Army and later tenure under Napoleon. Reiss also touches on Dumas’s influence on his son, who refigured him in some of his writings, most notably The Three Musketeersand The Count of Monte Cristo.

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The acclaimed biography won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize, for its nuanced reading of a complex revolutionary figure and his transformation into the fictional literature of his following generation.

The Black Count begins with a profile of Dumas’s childhood.

Born under the name Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, he came into the world in a French colony of Haiti in 1762. His fathe