Great books are notoriously resistant to adaptation, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby’s slim and elegant memoir, is indisputably a great book. It’s slim for a reason: ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby at 43 was in the prime of life as editor in chief of the celebrated women’s magazine Elle, a devoted father to two young children, a robust bon vivant, wit and lover, when he was ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the sybaritic, sophisticated, womanizing editor of French Elle, was 43 when he suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed with "locked-in syndrome." This man of the world ...

Anne Cosigny as Claude, Jean-Dominique Bauby's transcriber, shows Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) his finished work in 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.' If history is any guide, " The Diving Bell and the ...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, was 43 years old when he suffered a massive stroke in 1995. The stroke left him paralyzed — except for his left eye. That tiny portal became Bauby's ...

Andriana Chuchman (Sandrine) and Lucas Meachem (Jean-Dominique Bauby) performed in the dress rehearsal for the Dallas Opera's world premiere of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," by composer Joby ...

On Dec. 9, 1995, French Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a massive stroke while driving his young son down a country road in France. A few weeks later he woke up in a hospital in ...

Anyone who has read Jean-Dominique Bauby’s slim, extraordinary 1997 memoir “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is likely to wonder how it could possibly be made into a movie. In 1995 Bauby, then 43 ...