San Antonio College Library

"Literary detective David Burke explores the most creative quartiers of the City of Light - the Latin Quarter and the Marais, raffish Montmartre, "Lost Generation" Montparnasse, and others - and tracks down the haunts of dozens of the world's finest and most colorful writers in this unique look at literature's greatest city." "From native Parisians such as Moliere and Marcel Proust to expatriates like Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, Writers in Paris...

This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth...