Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine Elle. After developing locked-in syndrome in 1995 following a debilitating stroke, he dictated a memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, using a system of communication based on blinking.
- Occupation
- journalist, editor-in-chief, newspaper editor
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- April 23, 1952
- Died
- March 9, 1997
