C. Auguste Dupin Dupin" is at the center of Matthew Pearl's novel "The Poe Shadow" (2006). Dupin makes an appearance, alongside Poe himself, in the novel "Edgar Allan Poe on Mars" (2007) by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier. In "Murder in the Madhouse" (1935), the first of Jonathan Latimer's series of screwball crime novels starring detective William Crane, Crane presents himself in the sanitarium as C. Auguste Dupin. The story contains more oblique references in the form of stylistic elements (offstage murders, Crane's theories of deduction) that suggest Poe had an influence on Latimer's writing. Dupin is the hero of "Les ogres de
Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin Jacques Dupin (4 March 1927, Privas, Ardèche – 27 October 2012, Paris) was a French poet, art critic, and co-founder of the journal "L'éphemère". Dupin was born in the town of Privas in the South of France, where his father was a psychiatrist at a state mental hospital. In 1944, the family moved to Paris, where, in 1950, the poet René Char helped him publish his first collection of poems. In 1966, he co-founded the poetry quarterly L’Éphémère, with poets including André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul Celan. He was the director of publication at Galerie Maeght,