Pierre Daix was born on 24 May 1922 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France. He was married to Françoise and Anne Villelaur. He died on 2 November 2014 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.
Book: "Des forteresses aux musées. Entretiens de Pierre Daix avec Jean-Frédéric et Marie-Karine Schaub ". Paris: Albin Michel. with Jean-Frédéric and Marie-Karine Schaub
Member of the PCF (french communist party) at 17 ,he was a member of the Resistance, arrested and deported to Mathausen concentration camp. He worked after the war for the French government in a department directed by a communist minister. He then became director of French literary magazine "Les Lettres françaises" from 1948 to 72. He then criticized the Communist party .