Jacques-Laurent Bost (6 May 1916 – 21 September 1990) was a French journalist and close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

[5] Bost wrote for L'Express after Combat but left in 1964 to co-found L'Obs with Jean Daniel, Serge Lafaurie, K. S. Karol, and André Gorz.

[11][12][5] During his career, he also wrote for the satire weekly Le Canard enchaîné and Sartre's Les Temps modernes.

[citation needed] Le Dernier des métiers (1946) was the only book Bost wrote and published during his life.

In 1947, he helped Jean Delannoy adapt a Sartre drama into the film Les jeux sont faits.

[18] His translations include the French versions of the following English books: Little Men, Big World by William Burnett, Strictly for Cash by James Hadley Chase, This is Dynamite by Horace McCoy, The Sure Hand of God by Erskine Caldwell, Fast One by Paul Cain, How Sleeps The Beast by Don Tracy, The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter by Virgil Scott, and Lazarus #7 by Richard Sale.