Jean Joubert was born in 1928 in Châlette-sur-Loing (Loiret), France. He lived in Languedoc for a quarter century and taught American literature at the Université Paul Valéry at Montpellier. Joubert published novels and children’s stories, as well as poetry. His collection Poems: 1955–1975 (Grasset, 1975) was awarded the Prix Mallarmé in 1978.