Annie François was born on 24 July 1944 in Pont-de-Vaux, France. A French citizen, she went on to build a professional life in the world of books, working in the French language throughout her career.

François worked as both a publisher and a writer, two roles she held as a French citizen engaged with the literary world from more than one angle. She produced work of her own while also being involved in bringing texts into print, and she carried out both activities in French.

Her work was substantial enough to be formally documented by major library cataloguing institutions. Her name appears in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, the German National Library's authority database, and the ISNI registry, all of which record her professional identity as a French writer and publisher. The authorized form of her name in the Library of Congress catalogue is listed as "François, Annie."

Annie François died on 26 June 2009 in Ivry-sur-Seine, France. She was sixty-four years old. The cataloguing records held under her name at institutions on both sides of the Atlantic stand as the documented trace of her career as a French writer and publisher.