Daniel Théron (aka Jack-Alain Léger), French musician and author who worked under various pseudonyms throughout his career.
Born June, 5th 1947. Died defenestrated aged 66 on July 17th 2013.

The name Dashiell Hedayat was a tribute to Dashiell Hammett, an US American political activist and author of screenplays, detective novels & short stories and Sadegh Hedayat, an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual.

Théron also wrote for the Rock & Folk magazine. He used the Hedayat pseudonym for his first books before taking on the name Jack-Alain Léger in 1973. and had a best seller with Monsignore. Later he also wrote books under the names Eve Saint-Roch and Paul Small.