Julien Michel Leiris was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Part of the Surrealist group in Paris, Leiris became a key member of the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and head of research in ethnography at the CNRS.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, writer, ethnologist, poet
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- April 20, 1901
- Died
- September 30, 1990
