Philippe Morvan, alias Samuel Gance (born November 10, 1962 in Clermont-Ferrand), is a French writer who lives in Reunion Island and South Africa.
Originally from Auvergne, son of Yves Morvan, he first published a work for the Bibliothèque Verte Collection in Hachette Editions in 1981. He graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Clermont-Ferrand and went to work in Italy then at Réunion in 1990 as a hospital pharmacist. He gives up writing until 2013, then he releases a first novel under the pseudonym of Samuel Gance. In 2018 he was noticed by Caroline Lépée, the publisher of Guillaume Musso, and published under his real name a first novel with Calmann-Lévy editions, entitled Ours (Bear). a story inspired by the life of one of his ancestors, Anton Docher, adventurer, missionary and friend of the Indians. He lives part of the year in Marloth Park in South Africa, where he wrote the novel Les fils du Ciel (The Sons of Heaven) in 2021 which tells the story of a young half-breed enlisted in the Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer wars of the 19th century.