{{short description|French journalist and writer (born 1944)}} '''Jean-Jacques Greif''' (born in Paris in 1944) is a French journalist and writer. He has written for the magazine ''Marie Claire'' for thirty years.
==Biography== Greif was born in Paris in 1944, while his father, Lonek (later Lėon-Jacques), was being held in Auschwitz, having been arrested soon after Greif was conceived. Lonek survived the concentration camp, and told his son stories of his time there, which inspired some of Greif's novels.<ref name="interview">{{cite web |title=Jean-Jacques Greif Biography |url=https://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/1394/jeanjacques-greif |website=Book Browse |access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mapage.noos.fr/jjgreif/bio.html|title=Biographie|website=Jean-Jacques Greif|language=fr, en|access-date=7 September 2019}}</ref> He is the oldest brother of composer–pianist Olivier Greif (1950-2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mapage.noos.fr/jjgreif/olivier.html|title=Olivier Greif 1950-2000|website=Jean-Jacques Greif|language=fr, en|access-date=7 September 2019}}</ref> and the editor of his brother's journal published in 2019.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Journal|last=Greif|first=Olivier|publisher=Éditions Aedam Musicae|year=2019|isbn=978-2-919046-55-3|location=[Château-Gontier]|language=fr|oclc=1105181820}} Page 519 provides full dual names for his father.</ref>
Initially employed as an engineer, he went on to become a copywriter for an advertising company. He and his wife founded a school,<ref name="interview" /> and for a time he taught French and Physics<ref>{{cite web |title=Jean-Jacques Greif |url=https://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/auteurs/jean-jacques-greif |website=Ricochet |date=April 2012 |access-date=24 July 2019 |language=fr}}</ref> In 1975, he started working as a journalist for ''Marie Claire'' magazine<ref>{{cite web |title=Jean Jacques Greif |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/jean-jacques-greif |website=Bloomsbury |access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jean-Jacques Greif |url=https://www.ecoledesloisirs.fr/auteur/jean-jacques-greif |website=Ecoledesloisirs |access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref> and carried on until 2011.<ref>{{cite news |title=Greif Jean-Jacques |url=https://www.histoiredenlire.com/auteurs/jean-jacques-greif.php |access-date=24 July 2019 |work=Histoire d'en lire}}</ref> His first book for teenagers was published in 1996, and he has gone on to write 16.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography of Jean-Jacques Greif |url=https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-jean-jacques-greif.html |website=France Culture |access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.jjgreif.com Official site] {{Portal |Children's literature}}
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