Maurice Leblanc was born in 1864 in Rouen. From a young age he dreamt of being a writer and in 1905, his early work caught the attention of Pierre Lafitte, editor of the popular magazine, Je Sais Tout. He commissioned Leblanc to write a detective story so Leblanc wrote "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin," which proved hugely popular. His first collection of stories was published in book form in 1907 and he went on to write numerous stories and novels featuring Arsène Lupin. He died in 1941 in Perpignan, France in 1941.

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos was a Dutch-English journalist, literary critic and publisher, who gained his greatest fame as a translator. He was fluent in English, French, German, Flemish, Dutch, and Danish. In addition to the later works of Maeterlinck, his translations include works by Émile Zola, Alexis de Tocqueville, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, François René de Chateaubriand, Paul Kruger, Carl Ewald, Georgette Leblanc, Stijn Streuvels, and Louis Couperus.

Emma Bielecki teaches modern French literature at the University of Oxford. She holds an MA in French Studies and an MA in European History from University College London and was awarded her PhD by King's College London for a thesis on representations of the collector in French literature from Balzac to Proust.