Henri Charrière

Henri Charrière (born 16 November 1906 – died 29 July 1973) was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts. In jail he wrote the famous novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Charri%C3%A8re