Jean-Dominique Baubyauthor profile |
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| born | April 23, 1952 | ||||||||||||
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| died | March 09, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| gender | male | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | France | ||||||||||||
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about this author
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine, ELLE. On December 8, 1995 at the age of 43, Bauby suffered a massive stroke. When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was entirely speechless; he could only blink his left eyelid. This rare condition is called Locked-in Syndrome, a condition wherein the mental faculties are intact but the entire body is paralyzed. Bauby also lost 60 pounds in the first 20 weeks after his stroke. Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Bauby had to compose and edit the book entirely in his head, and ...more |
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books by Jean-Dominique Baubycombine editionsavg rating: 4.06 | 2494 ratings | 4 distinct works
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quotes by Jean-Dominique Bauby
"The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner."
— Jean-Dominique Bauby (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
— Jean-Dominique Bauby (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)





