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Americans
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There
has always been a strong relationship between Paris and American
artists and writers.
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Famous Americans who
lived in Paris (a year or more)
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- Sherwood ANDERSON
- Paul AUSTER
- Josephine BAKER (1925-1980?)
- James BALDWIN (1948-1987)
- Sylvia BEACH
- Sidney BECHET (1950-1959)
- Art BUCHWALD (after 1948)
- Mary CASSATT (1877-1926)
- Kenny CLARKE
- James Fenimore COOPER (1826-1833)
- William CHRISTIE (since 1970s)
- John DOS PASSOS
- Isadora DUNCAN (after 1905)
- M.F.K. FISCHER (in 1930s)
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- Francis Scott FITZGERALD
- Janet FLANNER Genêt (1921-1978)
- Benjamin FRANKLIN (several times
between 1767 and 1785)
- Ernest HEMINGWAY (1921-1930?)
(read "A
Moveable Feast")
- Chester HIMES (1953-1965)
- Edward HOPPER (1906-1907)
- Henry JAMES (1875-1876) (read
"A Little
Tour in France")
- Thomas JEFFERSON (1785-1787)
- Douglas KENNEDY
- Norman MAILER (1947-1948)
- Henry MILLER (1930-1935?) (read
"Quiet Days
in Clichy")
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- Gouverneur MORRIS (1789-1792)
- Anaïs NIN
- Thomas PAINE (1792-1802)
- Edgar Allan POE
- Cole PORTER
- Man RAY (1922-1925?)
- John Singer SARGENT
- Jean SEBERG
- Irvin SHAW
- Gertrude STEIN (1903-1946)
- Edith WHARTON (1906-1937) (read
"French
Ways and Their Meaning")
- Edmund WHITE (1970s-1980s)
- Richard WRIGHT (1946-1960)
- More to come
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| DID YOU KNOW THAT....? Some American
writers are more popular in France than in the USA and
their books sell more in France ! Among them : Bret Easton Ellis,
John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster, Douglas Kennedy, etc...
Not to mention Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis, some movie directors
are more popular in France : David Lynch, Samuel Fuller, John
Cassavetes, etc... More
about
American artists the French like the best. |
They wrote about Paris...
- Abigail ADAMS in Letters
of Mrs.Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Wilkins Carter, Boston,
1848
- Henry ADAMS, in The Letters
of Henry Adams, Vol.III, Harvard Univ.Press, Cambridge, 1982
- Sherwood ANDERSON, in France
and Sherwood Anderson : Paris Notebook 1921, Louisiana State
Univ.Press, Baton Rouge, 1976
- James BALDWIN, Notes of a
Native Son, Beacon Press, Biston, 1955
- P.T.BARNUM, Struggles and
Triumphs, or Forty Year's Recollections, Burr, Hartford,
1869
- Sylvia
BEACH, Shakespeare and Company, Harcourt, Brace, New York,
1959
- Sidney BECHET, Treat it Gentle
: an Autobiography, Hill & Wang, New York, 1960
- Elizabeth BISHOP, North &
South, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1946
- Art BUCHWALD, Art Buchwald's
Paris, Little, Brown, Boston, 1954
- Art BUCHWALD, I'll Always
Have Paris!, Putnam's, 1996
- James Fenimore COOPER, Gleanings
in Europe, Carey, Philadelphia, 1837
- Malcolm COWLEY, Exile's Return
: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s, Viking, New York, 1951
- E.E. CUMMINGS, Vive la Folie!,
Vanity Fair, September 1926
- Camille CISMANO, France -
A Love Story - Women Write about the French Experience, Seal
Press, 2004 (M.F.K.Fisher, Ruth Reichl, Alice B.Toklas, etc...)
- John DOS PASSOS, Journey
Between Wars, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1928
- Frederick DOUGLASS, Letter
From Paris, Amistad, August 1985
- David DOWNIE,
Paris, Paris - Journey into the City of Light (photographs
by Alison HARRIS, foreword by Diane JOHNSON), Transatlantic Press,
2005
- Theodor DREISER, A Traveler
at Forty, Century, New York, 1913
- Isadora DUNCAN, My Life,
Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927
- Ralph Waldo EMERSON, in The
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Vol.IV, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1964
- William FAULKNER, in Selected
Letters of William Faulkner, Random House, New York, 1977
- M.F.K. FISCHER, As They Were,
Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1982
- MFK FISHER, Long Ago in France,
Simon & Shuster, 1991
- Francis Scott FITZGERALD, in
The Short Stories of F.Scott Fitzgerald : a New Collection,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989
- Janet FLANNER, "Letter
From Paris", The New Yorker, April 28, 1945
- Janet FLANNER-GENET, Paris
Journal 1944-1971, Shawn 1977
- Janet FLANNER-GENET, Paris
Was Yesterday 1925-1939, Penguin, 1981
- Benjamin FRANKLIN, The Papers
of Benjamin Franklin vol XIV, Yale Univ.Press, New Haven,
1970
- Margaret FULLER, in Things
and Thoughts in Europe, New York Daily Tribune, May 15, 1847
- Mavis GALLANT, Paris Notebooks,
Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1989
- Adam GOPNIK, Americans in
Paris - A Literary Anthology, The Library of America, 2004
(an excellent anthology)
- Oscar HAMMERSTEIN II, The
Last Time I saw Paris, Lyrics, Simon & Schuster, New
york, 1949
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- Nathaniel HAWTHORNE, The
French and Italian Notebooks, Ohio State Univ. Press, Colombus,
1980
- Ernest HEMINGWAY, A Moveable
Feast, Charles Scribner's & Sons, New York, 1964
- Ernest HEMINGWAY, The Sun
also Rises, Penguin, 1975
- Langston HUGHES, The Big
Sea : an Autobiography, Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1940
- Henry JAMES, A Little Tour
in France, Penguin, 1983
- Thomas JEFFERSON, in The
Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson,
Colburn & Bentley, London, 1829
- Stanley KARNOW, Paris in
the Fifties, Random House, NY, 1997
- Douglas KENNEDY, La dame
du 5ème, 2006
- Jack KEROUAC, Satori in Paris,
Grove Press, New York, 1966
- A.J. LIEBLING, Between Meals
: an Appetite for Paris, Simon & Schuster, New York,
1962
- Anne Morrow LINDBERGH, The
Flower and the Nettle : Letters and Diaries 1936-1939, Harcourt
Brace, New York, 1976
- Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW,
in The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vol.I, Harvard
Univ.Press, Cambridge, 1967
- Anita LOOS, Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes : The Illuminating Diary of A Professional Lady,
Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925
- Henry MILLER, Quiet Days
in Clichy, Grove, 1987
- Gouverneur MORRIS, A Diary
of the French Revolution, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939
- Maggi NOLAN, Champagne ...
and Real Pain - a Paris Memoir - Celebrities in Paris in the
Fifties, Mosaic Press, Oakville 1998
- George ORWELL, Down and out
in Paris and London, Penguin, 1973
- Thomas PAINE, in The Writings
of Thomas Paine, Putnam's Sons, Now York, 1895
- S.J. PERELMAN, The Road to
Miltown, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1957
- Cole PORTER, in The Complete
Lyrics of Cole Porter, Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1983
- Waverly ROOT, The Paris Edition
: The Autobiography of Waverly Root 1927-1934, North Point
Pres, San Francisco, 1987
- Irwin SHAW, Paris, Paris!,
Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1977
- William L.SHIRER, 20th Century
Journey, A Memoir of a Life and the Times, (Vol 1 1904-1930),
Bantam Books 1976
- Gertrude STEIN, The Autobiography
of Alice B.Toklas, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1933
- Harriet Beecher STOWE, Sunny
Memories of Foreign Lands, Phillips, Boston, 1854
- James THURBER, Alarms &
Diversions, Harper, New York, 1957
- Diana VREELAND, D.V.,
Alfred A.Knopf, New Yrok, 1984
- Mark TWAIN, The Innocents
Abroad, American Publishing, Hartford, 1869
- Edith WHARTON, A Backward
Glance, D.Appleton Century, New York, 1934
- Edith WHARTON, French Ways
and their Meaning, Berkshire House, 1997
- Edith WHARTON, Fighting France,
From Dunkerque to Belport, Charles Scribner's & Sons,
New York, 1919
- More books by American
writers currently living in Paris
- More to come
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A short Bibliography on Americans in Paris
- Humphrey CARPENTER, Au rendez-vous
des génies - écrivains américains des années
20, Aubier, 1990
- Michel FABRE, From Harlem
to Paris - Black American Writers in France 1840-1980, Univ.
of Illinois Press, 1993
- Steven GILBAR, selected by,
Americans in Paris: Great Short Stories of the City of Light,
Capra Press 2002
- Adam GOPNIK (Edited by), Americans
in Paris - A Literary Anthology, The Library of America,
2004 (About 50 of the references listed above come from it)
- J.Gerald KENNEDY, Imagining
Paris - Exile, Writing, and American Identity, Yale Univ.Press,
1993 (about Stein, Hemingway, Miller, Fitzgerald and Barnes)
- Harvey LEVENSTEIN, Seductive
Journey - American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz
Age, Univ.Chicago Press, 1998
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- Ian LITTLEWOOD, Paris - A
Literary Companion, Harper & Row, New York, 1988
- Stephen LONGSTREET, We All
Went to Paris - Americans in the City of Light 1776-1971,
McMillan, New York, 1972
- Jean MERAL, Paris dans la
littérature américaine, CNRS, Paris, 1983
- Brian N.MORTON, Americans
in Paris- An Anecdotal Street Guide, The Olivia & Hill,
1984
- Brian N. MORTON, Americans
in Paris, The Olivia & Hillm Press, Ann Arbor, 1984
- Christopher SAWYER-LAUCANNO,
The Continual Pilgrimage - American Writers in Paris 1944-1960,
City Lights Books, 1997
- More to come...
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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
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