Georges Schehadé was born in Alexandria, Egypt in an aristocratic family of Lebanese origin but spent most of his life in Beirut. He studied law at the American University of Beirut and became a general secretary at the Ecole Supérieure de Lettres in 1945. He died on 17 January 1989 in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Montparnasse.

Laurice Schehadé was born in Egypt of French-speaking Lebanese parents. There was at least one sibling, a brother, Georges Schehadé. The family was of aristocratic French-speaking ancestry. Schehadé studied in Beirut. In 1934, she married an Italian diplomat, the Marquis Giorgio Benzoni, whom she met in Damascus, and then lived abroad. Schehadé published short-run booklets, which were largely autobiographical fictions, returning to her past and expressing in fluid poetic language her nostalgia for Lebanon and the days of her childhood. Several of these short texts were collected in 1999 under the title Les Livres d'Anne; included is a historical depiction of violence in Lebanon.