Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French actor, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE. On 8 December 1995 at the age of 43, Bauby suffered a massive stroke. Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again using a system called partner-assisted scanning.
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