[1][2] Born on 12 January 1929 in Tunis, de Buron first worked for the magazine Marie Claire before she began writing novels.
[4] Her 1958 novel Les Pieds sur le bureau won the Prix Courteline.
[5] She won the prix du Livre de l'été with the novel Qui c'est, ce garçon ?
[6] In the mid-1990s, de Buron left her longtime publisher, Groupe Flammarion, to join Plon.
De Buron largely wrote the script of the TV show Les Saintes chéries, an adaptation of two of her novels.