Jean-Paul Dubois (born in 1950 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French writer. He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1990s. The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina. (from Wikipedia)