James Baldwin
James Baldwin
e e cummings
e. e. cummings

English 101:
Americans in Paris:
The Quest for
The Good Life


Centenary College of Louisiana
Fall 2011

Jefferson Hendricks

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach
Americans in  Paris:
A Bibliography
Americans in  Paris:
A Filmography
Americans in Paris:
A Webliography

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Americans in Paris:  A Bibliography


On Paris in General  
[including guide books, general histories, etc.]
  • Bernier, Olivier.   Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties
  • Cole, Robert.   A Traveller's History of Paris
  • Desmons, Gilles.  Walking Paris
  • Duncan, Fiona & Leo Glass.  Paris Walks
  • Graf, Christine.  The Cafés of Paris: A Guide
  • Higonnet, Patrice.  Paris: Capital of the World
  • Horne, Alistair.  The Fall of Paris: the Siege and the Commune, 1870- 1871
  • Oelrich, Jeanne.  Paris Walking Guide
  • Landes, Alison and Sonia.  Pariswalks
  • *Middleditch, Michael.  The Paris Mapguide
  • Poisson, Michel.  Paris
  • Stich, Sidra.  art-Sites Paris
  • Vallois,  Thirza.    Around and About Paris
    • Vol 1: From the Dawn of Time To The Eiffel Tower; Arrondissements 1 - 7
    • Vol 2: From the Guillotine to The Bastille Opera; Arrondissements 8 - 12
    • Vol 3: New Horizons: Haussmann's Annexation; Arrondissements 13 - 20


History, Literary Criticism, Memoir, Travel Writing:   Paris and Americans in Paris
  • Allan, Tony.  Americans In Paris
  • Alsop, Susan Mary.  Yankees at the Court:  The First Americans in Paris
  • Anderson, Christiann and Monique Y. Wells.  Paris Reflections:  Walks Through Aftrican-American Paris
  • Beach, Sylvia.  Shakespeare and Company. 
  • Beach, Sylvia and Keri Walsh.  The Letters of Sylvia Beach.  (2010)
  • Bailey, William G.   Americans in Paris 1900 - 1930:  A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
  • *Benstock, Shari.    Women of the Left Bank, Paris 1910-1940
  • Bizardel, Yvon.  The First Expatriates:  Americans in Paris During the French Revolution
  • Blume, Mary.  A French Affair:  The Paris Beat, 1965-1998
  • Buchwald, Art.  I'll Always Have Paris:  A Memoir
  • Callaghan, Morley. That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Some Others
  • Carhart, ThadThe Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
  • Carpenter,  Humphrey.  Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s
  • Child, Julia and Alex Prudhomme.   My Life in France.  
  • Cody, Morrill.  Hemingway's Paris  --  [original title:  This Must Be the Place]
  • Davis, Richard Harding.  About Paris  (1895)      [Read it online at Google]
  • Davis, Ursula Broschke.     Paris Without Regret: James Baldwin, Chester Himes, Kenny Clarke, and Donald Byrd
  • Fabre, Michel A.  From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980
  • *Fitch, Noel Riley.   Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
  • *Fitch, Noel Riley.   Walks in Hemingway's Paris : A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler 
  • Flanner, Janet.   Paris Was Yesterday:  1924-1939
  • Ford, Hugh.   Four Lives in Paris
  • Ford, Hugh.   Published in Paris
  • *Gajdusek Robert E.  Hemingway's Paris
  • Gopnick, Adam.   Paris to the Moon
  • Haight, Mary Ellen Jordan.  Paris Portraits::  Renoir to Chanel -- Walks on the Right Bank
  • Haight, Mary Ellen Jordan.  Walks in Gertrude Stein's Paris
  • *Hemingway, Ernest.   A Moveable Feast
  • Hudleston, Sisley.   Paris Salons, Cafes, Studios: Being Social, Artistic and Literary Memories
  • Hurlbert, William Henry.   Americans in Paris, or, A Game of Dominoes.  A Comedy, in Two Acts.  (1858)     [Read it online at Google]
  • Karnow, Stanley.  Paris in the Fifties
  • Katz, Philip Mark.  From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune
  • Kennedy, J. Gerald.  Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity
  • Kerper, Barrie, ed.  Paris:  An Inspired Anthology & Travel Resource
  • Liebling, A. J.,   Between Meals:  An Appetite for Paris
  • Littlewood, Ian.  Paris: A Literary Companion
  • *Leland, John.  A Guide to Hemingway's Paris with Walking Tours
  • Leland, W. G.  Guide to Materials for American History in the Libraries and Archives of Paris
  • Levenstein, Harvey.  We'll Always Have Paris : American Tourists in France since 1930
  • *Lottman, Herbert R.  The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War
  • *Lottman, Herbert R.  Man Ray's Montparnasse
  • Longstreet, Stephen.   We All Went to Paris: Americans in the City of Light, 1776 - 1971
  • Meral, Jean.  Paris in American Literature
  • Morton, Brian.    Americans in Paris: An Anecdotal Street Guide to the Homes and Haunts of Americans from Jefferson to Capote
  • O'Reilly, James, and Larry Habegger and Sean O'Reilly, eds.   Traveller's Tales:  Paris
  • Pizer, Donald.  American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place
  • *Reynolds, Michael.  Hemingway:  The Paris Years
  • Rochefort, Harriet Welty.  French Toast:  An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
  • Rood, Karen Lane, ed.   American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939
  • Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher.  The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960
  • Stein, Gertrude.  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
  • Stein, Gertrude.  Paris, France
  • Stovall, Tyler.    Paris Noir : African Americans in the City of Light
  • *Weiss, Andrea.  Paris Was a Woman:  Portraits from the Left Bank
  • *Wickes, George.   Americans in Paris
  • White, Edmund.  The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris
  • White, Edmund and Hubert Sorin.  Our Paris: Sketches from Memory
  • Wiser, William.  The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties  
  • Wiser, William.  The Great Good Place: American Expatriate Women in Paris   
  • Wiser, William.  The Twilight Years:  Paris in the 1930s   
  • Wolff, Geoffrey.  Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
  • Ziesche, Philipp.  Cosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution


Fiction:   Paris and Americans in Paris
  • Barclay, Steven, ed.  A Place in the World Called Paris
  • Black, Cara.  Murder in the Marais
  • Brown, Dan.  The DaVinci Code
  • Carlisle, Clancy.   Paris Pilgrims
  • Gallant, Mavis.  Paris Stories
  • Gilbar, Steven, ed.  Americans in Paris: Great Short Stories of the City of Light
  • *Gopnick, Adam, ed.  Americans in Paris:  A Literary Anthology
  • *Hemingway, Ernest.  The Sun Also Rises
  • *Johnson, Diane.  Le Mariage
  • Johnson, Diane.  L'Affaire
  • Lee, Jennifer, ed.    Paris in Mind: Three Centuries of Americans Writing About Paris
  • Sedaris, David.   Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • Vandenburg, Margaret.  An American in Paris:  A Novel

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The Visual and Musical Arts:    Paris and Americans in Paris
  • Boime, Albert.  Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris After War and Revolution
  • Bolton, Linda.  Art in Focus: Paris
  • *Brassai.   The Secret Paris of the '30s
  • *Clark, T.J.  The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers
  • Deedes-Vincke, Patrick.  Paris: the City and its Photographers.
  • Fink, Lois MarieAmerican Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons
  • Fisher, Diane Pietrucha, ed.   Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition
  • Friedrich, Otto. Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet
  • Grant, Susan.  Paris: A Guide to Archival Sources for American Art History
  • Leininger-Miller, Therese.   New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934
  • Lévy, Sophie, ed.   A Transatlantic Avant-Garde:  American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939
  • *Lottman, Herbert R.  Man Ray's Montparnasse
  • *Mann, Carol.  Paris Between the Wars: Artistic Life in the Twenties and Thirties
  • Melly, George.   Paris and the Surrealists
  • Mickenberg, David, and George Zabo and Helene Barbara Weinberg.  Americans in Paris 1850-1910: The Academy, the Salon, the Studio, and the Artists' Colony
  • *Russell, John.  Paris
  • Turner, Elizabeth Hutton and others.  Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder
  • Turner, Elizabeth Hutton.  American Artists in Paris, 1919-1929 (Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde, No 62)
  • Shack, William A.  Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars
  • Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years: The Arts in France 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Erik Satie, Henri Rousseau, Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Siegel, Jerrold. Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
  • Steele, Valerie. Paris Fashion: A Cultural History
  • Sutcliffe, Anthony.  Paris: An Architectural History
  • Weinberg, Helene Barbara.  Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
  • Wilson, Ellen.  American Painter in Paris: A Life of Mary Cassatt
  • Wilson, Sarah.  Paris: Capital of the Arts