Jean Cocteau: A Life

Jean Cocteau: A Life, original title Jean Cocteau, is a biography about the French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. It was written by Claude Arnaud and published by éditions Gallimard on 25 August 2003. Yale University Press published it in English on 27 September 2016.

The book was awarded the 2004 Prix Amic from the Académie Française. The English-language translators, Lauren Elkin and Charlotte Mandell, received the French-American Foundation's translation prize.