Jean Lartéguy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Lartéguy

French journalist and writer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1920

Place of Birth: Maisons-Alfort, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 23-Feb-2011

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 – 23 February 2011) was the nom de plume of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier.
He was born in 1920 in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne and died in 2011.
Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario in his 1960 novel Les centurions.