who wrote planet of the apes
For other books in the Planet of the Apes franchise, see Planet of the Apes. La PlanÃ¨te des Singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes and Monkey Planet, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle. It was adapted into the 1968 film Planet of the Apes, launching the Planet of the Apes media franchise.