Joseph Kessel - Bibliography includes

French journalist, reporter, and traveller, born in Clara, E Argentina. He wrote 75 novels of war, passion, and adventure, of which Le Lion (1958) is the most famous. Others include L'Equipage (1923), Les Rois Avengles (1925), Belle de Jour (1928), L'Armée des ombres (1946), Tous n'étaient pas des Anges (1953), and the best-selling Les Cavaliers (1967).

Joseph Kessel (born on February 10, 1898 in Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, died on July 23, 1979 in Avernes, Val-d'Oise, France) was a French journalist and novelist.

He was born in Argentina because of his father's constant journeys, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin.

Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, such as Luis Buñuel's Belle de jour.

Joseph Kessel is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

Bibliography includes

La steppe rouge (1922) L'équipage (1923) Les captifs (1926), grand prix du roman of the Académie française Nuits de princes (1927) Belle de jour (1928), inspired Luis Buñuel's 1967 movie. Fortune carrée (1932) La passante du Sans-Souci (1936) - movie by Jacques Rouffio in 1982. Le tour du malheur (1950) Le lion (1958) The Magic Touch, also published in USA as The Man with the Miraculous Hands (1962) Les cavaliers (1967) Partout un ami (1972) Des hommes (1972) Les temps sauvages (1975)