English- speaking authors in Paris

Writing in Paris Recently published books Writing events,writing classes and writing tips More to come...

Shakespeare and Company is a mythical bookstore in the Latin Quarter, right in front of Notre Dame, initialy founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919 and now run by George Whitman and his daughter. A heaven for expatriate writers (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ezra Pound to name a few), its many cozy corners and small rooms are perfect for writers to discuss their works in progress. The whole building is a wonderful cavern of books... Leaflets and annoucemennts, etc... Check its website for literary events.

Writing in Paris

Many illustrious American lived in Paris and among them, many writers.

Contrary to the USA, authors very rarely use a literary agent and it is a new profession in France. A handful of literary agents ("agences de représentation") deal with the rights between French and foreign publishers but they do not receive manuscripts and propose them to publishers. Authors send their manuscript directly to publishers.

The most active literary agents are : Virginia Lopez-Ballesteros Susanna Lea François Samuelson

Books by English-speaking writers in Paris

Michael BALTER, The Goddess and the Bull, Free Press, 2005 Chris DICKEY, The Sleeper, Simon & Schuster, 2004 Chris DICKEY, Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son, Simon & Schuster, 1998 Chris DICKEY, Innocent Blood : A Novel, Simon & Schuster, 1997 Chris DICKEY, Expats : Travel from Tripoli to Tehran, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990 Chris DICKEY, With the Contras : A Reporter with teh Contras of Nicaragua, Simon & Schuster, 1986 David DOWNIE, Paris, Paris - Journey into the City of Light (photographs by Alison HARRIS, foreword by Diane JOHNSON), Transatlantic Press, 2005 David DOWNIE, Cooking the Roman Way, HarperCollins, 2002 David DOWNIE, Le Poulpe : la tour de l'immonde, Baleine, 2000 David DOWNIE, Enchanted Liguria, Rizzoli, 1997 Gerry DRYANSKY, Fatima's Good Fortune (co-written with Joanne DRYANSKY), Miramax, 2004 Gerry DRYANSKY, Chant d'Adieu, Pygmalion, 2004 James R.GAINES, Evening in the Palace of Reason : Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment, HarperCollins, 2005 Mavis GALLANT, Paris Notebooks, Hamish, 1986 Tom HENEGHAN, Unchained Eagle : Germany After the Wall, Pearson Education, 2000 Diane JOHNSON, Le Divorce, Gallimard, 1997 Ron KATZ (with photos by Arielle de la Tour d'Auvergne), French America, EDM, 2004 Hilary KAISER, Veteran Recall, GFF, 1994 Mary A.KELLY, Paris Sketchbook, Didier Millet/Thames & Hudson, 2001 Douglas KENNEDY, LA dame du 5ème Axel KRAUSE, Inside the New Europe, HarperCollins, 1991 Axel KRAUSE, La Renaissance : Voyage à l'Intérieur de l'Europe, Seuil, 1992 John MORRIS, Get a Picture : A Personal History of Photojournalism, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002 John MORRIS, RobertCapa :D-Day (Photos Robert Capa), Point de Vue, 2004 David Wingeate PIKE, Betrifft : KZ Mauthausen, Was die Archive erzählen, Franz Steinmassl, Grünbach, 2005

David Wingeate PIKE, Mathausen : l'enfer nazi en Autriche, Rf.Privat, Toulouse, 2004 David Wingeate PIKE, Los Espanoles en el Holocausto, Fandom House Montadori, Barcelona, 2003 David Wingeate PIKE,The Closing of the Second World War, Peter Lang, New York, 2001 David Wingeate PIKE, Spaniards in the Holocaust, Routledge, London, 32000 David Wingeate PIKE, In the Service of Stalin, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993 David Wingeate PIKE, The Opening of the Second World War, Peter Land, New York, 1991 David Wingeate PIKE, Jours de gloire, jours de honte, Sedes, Paris 1984 David Wingeate PIKE, Latin America in Nixon's Second Term, Bennett & Starling, London, 1982 David Wingeate PIKE, Les Français et la guerre d'Espagne, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1975 David Wingeate PIKE, Vae Victis!, Ruedo Iberico, Paris, 1969 Polly PLATT, French or Foe, Culture Crossings Ltd, 1994 Polly PLATT, Savoir Flair, Culture Crossings Ltd, 2000 Alan RIDING, The Essential Shakespeare Handbook, Dorling Kindersley, UK, 2004` Alan RIDING, Distant Neighbors : A Portrait of the Mexicans, Knopf, 1985 Harriet Welty ROCHEFORT, French Toast, St.Martin's Press, New York, 1999 Harriet Welty ROCHEFORT, French Fried, St.Martin's Press, New York, 2001 Harriet Welty ROCHEFORT, French Toast : Heureuse comme une Américaine en France, Ramsay, Paris, 2005 Mort ROSENBLUM, Chocolate : A Bittersweet Saga of Dark an Light, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2005 Mort ROSENBLUM, Olives : The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2005 Mort ROSENBLUM, A Goose in Toulouse, Farra, Straux Giroux, 2005 Mort ROSENBLUM, The Secret Life of the Seine, Addison Wesley John TAYLOR, Paths to Contemporary French Literature (2 vol.), Piscataway NJ (Rutgers), Transaction Publishers, 2006 Janet Lizop THORPE, Nous n'irons pas à Pitchipoï, Ed.de Fallois, Paris 2004 Hal VAUGHAN, Doctor to The Resistance, Brassey's, 2004 Hal VAUGHAN, Bedouin, Orion Pictures, 1979

Writing events and writing classes in Paris

WICE Writing Seminar, 20 blvd Montparnasse 75015 : the most well-known writing seminar in Paris See our list of blogs by Americans in Paris More to come

Adrian Leeds has a very informative site which includes an entire section on Writing in Paris with a Writers Insider Guide to Paris for sale online. Various events, such as : First AAPA (Anglo-American Press Association) Informal Book Fair : June 9, 2005 More to come...

To table of contents To American Community in Paris To Americans and Paris Back to home page	Harriet Welty Rochefort writes articles and books about France and the French. Order her books : "French Toast, An American in Paris Celebrates The Maddening Mysteries of the French", St.Martin's Press, New York, 1999 "French Fried, The Culinary Capers of An American in Paris", St.Martin's Press, New York, 2001 More on Harriet's books (excerpts, upcoming events, testimonials, etc..)	site still under construction
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