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  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death - Paperback

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death - Paperback

    By Jean-Dominique Bauby

About Jean-Dominique Bauby Books

JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY was born in France in 1952. He attended school in Paris. After working as a journalist for a number of years, Bauby became the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine in Paris in 1991. On December 8, 1995 he had a stroke which left him with the condition known as locked-in syndrome. Bauby died on March 9, 1997, two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He was the father of two children, Theophile and Celeste.