Jean-Benoît Nadeau was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and lives in Montreal. His first book in English is “Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong”, which he co-signed with wife and coauthor Julie Barlow. He also published “The Story of French”, “The Story of Spanish” and “The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed“. Their books have been translated in French, Dutch, Mandarin and Japanese.
In French, he authored “Les Français aussi ont un accent“, “Pas si fous ces Français”, “Le français quelle histoire!”, “Les accents circomplexes”, “Le Guide du travailleur autonome 3.0“ and “Écrire pour vivre.”
As a journalist, he is a columnist for Montreal daily Le Devoir, a contributor to Canada's leading national magazine L'actualité and an editorialist at Avenues.ca, and has signed op-eds in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.