Maurois, André, Alexandre Dumas: A Great Life in Brief, Knopf, 1966.

This concise biography presents a Dumas who resembles a hero out of one of his own novels.

Ross, Michael, Alexandre Dumas, David & Charles, 1981.

This is an engaging and sympathetic biography that presents Dumas as a man of great charm and good nature, not as the charlatan that his detractors accused him of being. Ross places more emphasis on Dumas's life than on his works.

Schopp, Claude, Alexandre Dumas: Genius of Life, translated by A. J. Koch, Franklin Watts, 1988.

This was first published in France in 1986 and is the most recent biography of Dumas to appear in English. It presents a panoramic view of Dumas's life in all its colorful detail.

Stowe, Richard S., Alexandre Dumas (père), Twayne World Authors Series, No. 388, Twayne, 1976.

This is the best and most concise guide to Dumas's...