Jacques Peuchmaurd studied history and geography in Paris. During World War II, he enlisted as a journalist in Germany for the bulletin of the French sent on behalf of the [Service du travail obligatoire|S.T.O.]. He was in Berlin at the time of the bombing of the city by the Allies, an episode from which he will draw a book: La Nuit allemande (1967).
After the war, it was for a while aliterary critic for the magazine Arts. He also worked for radio, notably with Jean Tardieu on the show Le club d'essaiorMichel Polac [fr]atLe Masque et la Plume [fr]. He subsequently headed the press service of Éditions Julliard, before being hired by Éditions Robert Laffont, of which he became one of the closest collaborators as a literary director.
As a writer, he was the author of several novels of autobiographical inspiration, including Le Soleil de Palicorna, which earned him the Prix des libraires in 1965 and Le plein été which made him the winner of the Prix Cazes in 1959.
