News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars

The great American exodus to Paris after World War I included not only writers and artists but journalists. They came by the score, the raw and the accomplished, and in their baggage most carried the dream of eventually becoming poets, short-story writers, or novelists. With the war, American news activity had shifted from London to Paris. The city became the center of American journalism in Europe, with jobs available on English-language newspapers and magazines, with news services and the foreign bureaus of American publications, and as freelancers of various sorts, writing for a Europe-hungry audience back home.

News of Paris recaptures the colorful, often zany world of Paris-American journalists during these glory days, concentrating on the lives of such figures as Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, Henry Miller, Elliot Paul, William L. Shirer, Dorothy Thompson, Janet Flanner, and Eric Sevareid-as well as the less famous and more bibulous hacks-and on the life of the major newspapers, notably the Paris Herald and the Tribune. With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.