Americans and Paris

There has always been a strong relationship between Paris and American artists and writers. Famous Americans who lived in Paris What they wrote about Paris Bibliography

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Famous Americans who lived in Paris (a year or more)

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)

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")

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

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

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

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

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...

To table of contents To American Community in 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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