Jean-Paul Dubois was born in 1950 in Toulouse, where he now lives, and is a journalist and author. Not Everybody Lives the Same Way was awarded France’s top literary honor, the Prix Goncourt, in 2019. It has sold more than half a million copies in France, with rights sold in more than 20 countries. He is the author of numerous critically acclaimed novels and travel pieces, many of which were inspired by his time in America.