Paris Expatriates

Bowles, Paul (b.1910)

Composer, Writer

Recollections of an Expatriate, 1969

Mr. Bowles studied composition with Aaron Copeland and Nadia Boulanger. This interview deals with his association in Paris with Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Nadia Boulanger, George Antheil, and Ezra Pound.

Interviewer: George Wickes, Professor of English, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate School.

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Brown, Slater

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Dos Passos, John

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Isherwood, Christopher

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Lowenfels, Walter (b.1897)

Writer

Reminiscences of a Paris Expatriate, 1965

Left New York for Europe in 1926 and remained there, mainly in Paris, until the winter of 1934-35. Reminisces about his literary associations as a Paris expatriate: Ford Madox Ford, Michael Fraenkel, Henry Miller. Comments on life in Villa Seurat, where Henry Miller lived in Paris. Tells of experiences in radical politics since returning to United States.

Interviewer: George Wickes, Professor of English, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate School. This interview was conducted in conjunction with the writings of Professor Wickes' book Americans in Paris. 1903-1939 (Paris Review-Doubleday, 1969).

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Thomson, Virgil

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