"Paris review editions."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290).

"America is my country but Paris is my home." So spoke Gertrude Stein, summing up for all time the attraction that Paris held for that legendary group of Americans who lived and worked there during the first four decades of the century. From the arrival of Gertrude Stein in 1903 to Henry Miller's departure in 1939, this brilliant group included Virgil Thomson, Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway and E. E. Cummings. In an atmosphere saturated with creation and the classical spirit of France, each member of this extra-ordinary group responded differently to the creative opportunities Paris offered. George Wickes shows the results of these influences through the individual works of literature, art and music produced by these men and women while in Paris. AMERICANS IN PARIS is filled with new detail and observation by an author who himself has tasted the intoxicating atmosphere of the City of Light that so pervades the works of this company of America's most colorful artistic geniuses. Born in Belgium and raised in New York state, George Wickes has often been an American in Paris, and spent considerable time in other parts of the world, including a wartime tour of duty with the O.S.S. in Southeast Asia. He is a contributor to such journals as Shenandoah, The New Republic, and The Paris Review and has produced books dealing with other members of the literary scene, including Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller and Aldous Huxley. Mr. Wickes lives with his family in Southern California where he teaches modern literature at Harvey Mudd College of the Claremont Colleges of Southern California.

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