Christian Jacq

Christian Jacq was born on 28 April 1947. he is a French author and Egyptologist.

He was born in Paris, and his interest in Egyptology began when he was thirteen at the time he read History of Ancient Egyptian Civilization by Jacques Pirenne.

This inspired him to write his first novel. By the time he was eighteen, he had written eight books. His first commercially successful book was Champollion the Egyptian, published in 1987. As of 2004, he has written over fifty books, including several non-fiction books on the subject of Egyptology.

His notably five-book series is about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly.