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Note on the title of this article-in-progress: In should include work written, but not published in Europe first (or at all) and tries to note all well-known American writers who spent considerable time abroad. (the youngest writers were born in 1953 and 1941).

Before the Civil War[edit]

18th Century
  • Abigail Adams
    • Letters from Paris and London
  • John Adams

Was in the Netherlands, Paris (first under Franklin), London

    • Book/broadside? on government
  • Benjamin Franklin. Abridged? first edition of his Autobiography
  • Thomas Jefferson
    • Notes on Virginia. Privately printed. Printed 200
  • Thomas Paine
19th Century
  • John Quincy Adams

U.S. minister to the Netherlands, Berlin, Russia, London. Wrote poetry, journals

  • Joel Barlow (1754-1812)

England, France.

  • James Fenimore Cooper

Lived in Europe from 1826 to 1833. Some of his books, dealing with Europe:

  • The Bravo
  • The Heidenmauer
  • The Headsman
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Liverpool in 1853. In Rome? Florence? from 1857-1860.

  • The Marble Faun
  • John (Milton) Hay (1838-1905)

1865-1870: secretary of legation at Paris (1865-67) and Madrid (1867-68) and chargé d'affaires at Vienna (1868-70). U,S. ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1897.

  • Castilian Days. 1875
  • Washington Irving

Grand tour (1804-06); later seventeen year expatriation

  • Sketch Book
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One year abroad. 1835-36.

Herman Melville.

In Liverpool c.1839. The Whale - first in England

John Neal (1793-1876)

In London (1824-27)

  • Brother Jonathan, or, The New Englanders. (novel)
  • Nathanial Parker Willis]]/ N. P. Willis (1806-1867)

1830s.

Travel Writing around 1840

Works. 1845

Sandwich Islands, Central America. Boston 1843

Holidays Abroad, or, Europe from the West, NY 1849

1844

1860-1900[edit]

  • Henry Adams

In Europe in 1860, wrote about it for the Boston Courier.

  • Grant Allen (1848-1899)===

Canadian. Lived in the USA, studied in England, professor at the Queen's College, Jamaica. Returned to England in 1876. Science-writer. Novelist.

  • (as Olive Prtt Rayner): The Type-writer Girl. 1897
  • The British Barbarians. 1895. (science fiction)
  • Stephen Crane (1871-1900)===

Went to England (London?) in 1897.

  • Harold Frederic (1856-1898)

In England since 1884 (London, later Surrey). 10 novels, 23 short stories, 2 vols. non-fiction and journalism (1,500 articles).

  • Henry Harland (1861-1905)

Lit.: Karl Beckson: Henry Harland. 1978 Wrote novels under the name of Sidney Luska. Left the USA with his wife. In Paris from 1887, then in England. A co-founder and co-editor of The Yellow Book (with Aubrey Beardsley and John Lane). Moved on to Italy, conversion to Catholizism.

  • Mademoiselle Miss. London 1893
  • Grey Roses. London 1895
  • Comedies and Errors. London 1898
  • The Cardinal's Snuff-Box. 1900
  • The Lady Paramount 1901
  • My Friend Prospero 1903
  • posthum, finished by his wife: The Royal End. 1909
  • Bret Harte/Brett Harte.

London.

  • Henry James

1875/76 in Europe/in London. British citizen since 1915.

  • Daisy Miller 1878
  • The Portrait of a Lady 1881
  • The Ambassadors. 1901
  • The Wings of the Dove. 1902

Studied in Europe and is there again from 1869.

  • Hans Breitmann's Ballads. 1871
  • Joacquin Miller

London, c.1870. Brazil?

  • Self-published poetry books, London.

Germany; essay on the impossible language and on Austrian politics [?]

  • The Innocents Abroad (1867 journey to the Holy Land).

Editor of Quartier Latin. Iliffe and Son, Paris, London [London, Paris?]; 1895? until 1899)

French Canada[edit]

Mexico[edit]

  • Gale's Magazine.

C.1920, + english-language supplement to Mexican paper(s)?

Lit.:

  • Cecil Robinson
  • Drewey Wayne Gunn: American and British Writers in Mexico, 1556-1973. University of Texas Press, Austin 1974
  • Diana Anhalt: A Gathering of Fugatives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico, 1948-1965. Archer, Santa Maria, Calif., 2001

Germany[edit]

  • Heinrich Linhard (1822-1903)

Swiss. Went to California and wrote a book about it. First published in German in 1898(?).

  • Ernst Edler von der Planitz (1857, Norwich, Conn.-1935, Berlin)
  • Hermann Georg Scheffauer (1878-1927). With the San Francisco writer's boheme, went to Germany in 1910.

China[edit]

Florence Wheelock Ayscough (1878-1942)[edit]

(* Shanghai, d. Chicago ) Father: Canadian Businessman, mother American. Lived in China until age 11. Met her future husband in China in 1916. In China (and in the USA) in the early 1920s. [A. papers]. Friend of Amy Lowell (published Correspondence) Diaries. Friend of travel writer and novelist (etc.) Maude Meagher.

  • Amy Lowell: Fir-flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese/by Florence Asycough; English versions by my Lowell. Houghton Mufflin Company, Boston 1921

Pearl Sydensticker Buck (1892-1973)[edit]

John Dewey (1859-1952)[edit]

Witnessed the May Fourth Movement of 1919

Elizabeth Crump Enders[edit]

Nurse in WW 1 France, lived in China in the early 1920s with her French husband. Articles in the press.

Harry Franck (1881-1962)[edit]

Travell writer: Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, among other places. In China in the early 1920s.

Emily Hahn (1905-1997)[edit]

Alice Tisdale Hobart (1882-1967)[edit]

To China in 1908, stayed there for 20 years

Joy Homer (1915-1946)[edit]

Late 1930s, later with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.

George N. Kates (1895-1990)[edit]

Peking resident, 1930s.

  • The Years That Were Fat.

Elizabeth Kendall (1864-1952)[edit]

Historian. Taught at Weelesley College. In China in 1911 and later. Yenching University, early 1920s.

Graham Peck (1914-1970)[edit]

Artist and Writer. In China in the late 1930s and later for the U.S. Office of War Information.

Grace Gallatin Seton (1872-1959)[edit]

In China in the early 1920s.

Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)[edit]

In China from the late 1920s. Journalist, Comintern operative.

Cordwainer Smith[edit]

Edgar Snow (1905-1972)[edit]

In China: late 1920s - late 1930s and after 1949.

Illona Ralf Sues[edit]

Polish-born writer. Worked on Opium suppression in Geneva. China in the mid-1930s.

Harold Speakman (1888-1928)[edit]

Painter, novelist, travel writer (USA, Irland, Middle East). China in the early 1920s

General James H. Wilson/James Harrison Wilson (1837-1925)[edit]

Served in the Civil War, the Spanish War and the Boxer Rising (1900). Earlier trip in the 1870s

American writers living in/ visiting Japan[edit]

Ernest Fenollosa (February 18, 1953 - September 21, 1908)[edit]

In Japan from 1878 to 1890 [?] and in 1896, from 1897 to 1900. He died in London en route to Japan in 1908.

Mary McNeill Scott (18??-1954)[edit]

2nd wife of Ernest Fenollosa.

  • The Breath of the Gods. 1905
  • The Dragon Painter. 1906
  • Blossoms from a Japanese Garden: A Book of Child Verses. 1913

Mae St.John Bramhall[edit]

British? author.

  • Japanese Jingles. T. Hasegawa, Tokyo; Kelly & Walsh, LD, Yokohama 1891
  • Nipponese Rhymes and Japanese Jingles. 1893 [?]
  • The Wee Ones of Japan. Harper, New York 1894

Lafcadio Hearn (Lefkas, Greece; 1850- Tokyo, 1904)[edit]

Emigrated to the USA c.1870; to Japan in 1890.

Philip Henry Dodge (1859-1921)[edit]

Missionary and sometime poet, who spent many years in Japan.

Joaquin Miller (1837?-1913) with Yone Noguchi[edit]

  • Japan of Sword and Love. Kanao Bunyendo, Tokyo 1905

Ella Wheeler Wilcox[edit]

Travelled in Asia in 1910-11.

Joseph I. C. Clarke/Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1846-1925)[edit]

Journalist. Immigrated from Ireland to the USA in 1868. Tour of Japan in 1914.

  • Japan at First Hand. Dodd, Mead, New York 1918

Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945)[edit]

  • The Happy Princess and Other Poems. Small, Maynard; Boston 1907
  • A Song of East and West. Samurai, Cranleigh, Surrey 1908
  • Chats on Japanese Prints. 1915
  • Spectra (The Spectra Hoax)

Witter Bynner[edit]

1917, with Arthur Davidson Ficke. China more important (The Jade Mountain; 1929)

  • A Canticle of Pan

Bali[edit]

Margaret Mead[edit]

Anthropology does not count for this list; but her writings are also literature.

Jane Belo Tannenbaum (Dallas, Texas, November3, 1904-1968)[edit]

In Paris in the 1920s, later on Bali for years, met Margaret Mead there.

Tahiti[edit]

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)[edit]

Hawaii, Tahiti.

  • South-Sea Idyls

George Biddle (Philadelphia, January 24, 1885-November 6, 1973)[edit]

Went to Harvard and became a lawyer. In 1911 and again in 1914 to Europe (first Paris, later Munich and Madrid) to become an artist. Enlists in 1917. In Tahiti in 1920/22, adopted a boy there. He wrote a children's book about this experience. After 1927 in Mexico with Diego Rivera. He was married for a time in the 1920s to Jane Belo (Jane Belo Tannenbaum). Lived in Italy (around 1930?)

  • Green Island. Coward-McCann, 1930.
  • < Adolphe Borie. American Federation of Arts, Washington, D.C. 1937. >
  • An American Artist's Story. Little, Brown & Co., 1939.
  • < Artist at War: Tunesia-Sicily-Italy. [+ Taranto-Italy?]. The Viking Press, New York 1944 >
  • < The Yes and No of Contemporary Art. An Artist's Evolution. 1957 >
  • Indian Impressions. The Orion Press, NY 1960
  • Tahitian Journal. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1968. Repr.: 1992

Japan after 1945 until now[edit]

Became a Japanese citizen in 2000.

  • J(ames) D(ale) Brown

Travel-writing.

  • The Sudden Disappearance of Japan

Cid Corman[edit]

    • The 2nd and 3rd series of Corman's Origin (magazine) were published in Kyoto. 2nd series: 14 issues (April 1961-July 1964), 3rd series: 20 issues (April 1966-1971)

Corman's own poetry:

  • Of. 1990

Non-fiction [?]

  • Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

Sociologist.

  • Robin D. Gill

Jesse Glass[edit]

Sam Hamill[edit]

Poetry. 1991

David F. Hoenigman[edit]

  • Burn Your Belongings. Six Gallery Press, 2008
  • Shame on You. Louffa Press. Edition of 100

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa[edit]

Experimental Poet. Published her first book in Japan (she is her own publisher?)

  • Skin Museum. Avant Books Japan, 2006.
  • Aquiline

Donald Keene[edit]

Japanologist; Translator

Non-fiction

  • Lost Japan

James Kirkup[edit]

  • Sakunami (poem)

Samuel Lieberman[edit]

Occupation Army.

  • Tokyo, Winter 1946 (poem)
  • Oh, Mt. Fuji: Poem and Commentar for GI's and Other Tourists (poem), ca. 1947

Leza Lowitz (* 1962)[edit]

Poetry. 1996

  • Leila Philip
  • The Road through Miyama
  • T. R. Reid

Non-fiction.

  • Confucius Lives Next Door

Donald Richie[edit]

Films and criticism. First book with Tuttle, 1949.

  • The Inland Sea. 1971

From New York City.

  • Bicycle Days. 1989.

Gary Snyder[edit]

Claus Stamm[edit]

Author of three children's books based on Japanese material.

  • To Kazuko - 1947 (poem)

Lucien Stryk (* 1924, Kolo, Poland)[edit]

To the U.S.A. in 1927

  • Holly Thompson ===
  • Ash. Stone Bridge Press

Philip Whalen[edit]

  • Patty Willis

Lives in Ishikawa.

  • The Village above the Stars

Thailand, Bangkok[edit]

Dean Barret[edit]

American. Erotic? novels and stories.

Christopher G. Moore[edit]

Canadian. Bangkok resident since 1988

Jake Needham[edit]

American

Cleo Odzer (1950-2001)[edit]

USA. Anthropologist

S. P. Somtow[edit]

Born in Bangkok; Eton, Cambridge educated. Lives in Los Angeles and B. Thai/American. Writer and Composer.

  • Jasmine Nights

Harold Stephens (December 3, 1926)[edit]

American.

William Warren[edit]

  • Jim Thompson: The legendary American of Thailand.

California before the U.S.A./ Mexico[edit]

Richard Henry Dana,Jr.[edit]

Zelia Nutall (1857-1933)[edit]

From California. Spent many years in Europe and in Mexico. Father John Parrott (?)

The Mexican Revolution

Steffens, Reed

Oscar Lewis[edit]

Latin America[edit]

Elizabeth Bishop[edit]

Brasilia

Janine Pommy-Vega[edit]

Europe; Bolivia. a few years in the early 1960s and early 1970s

Todd Temkin[edit]

Chile

Australia[edit]

Zane Grey[edit]

In Australia fishing, a non-fiction book and some stories

Paris, Italy and London (from around 1900)[edit]

Natalie Barney/Nathalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876, Dayton, Ohio - April 24, 1972, Paris)[edit]

In Paris since 1898. Her first book with (traditional) poetry for her girl friends in 1900. Nearly all her work in french. There are only a few English-language books.

Gelett Burgess[edit]

Bohemian in San Francisco. The Lark. Wrote about modern art while in Paris.

John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)[edit]

In England from 1908-1933.

Edward Vernon Nott (* 1878, in Canada)[edit]

Published four collections of verse in London, 1903-6

Iris Origo (1902-1988)[edit]

Father American, mother Anglo-Irish. In Italy since around 1910. In 1924 married to an Italian aristocrat. Historian.

George Santayana (1863, Madrid-1952, Rome)[edit]

In 1912 left the USA (Harvard) for good. Italy.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)[edit]

In Paris since 1913.

Elinor Wylie/Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie Benet (September 7, 1885, Somerville?, New Jersey - December 16, 1928)[edit]

She was married to the poet Benét.

  • Incidental Numbers. Anonymously and privately published, London 1912. (poetry)
  • Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets [also known as: One Person]. Privately printed, Borough Press, Henley on Thames 1928.

The Lost Generation[edit]

Lit.: Sisley Huddlestone (1883-1952): Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios (1928); Bach to Montparnasse: Glimpses of Broadway in Bodhemia (Lippincott, Philadelphia 1931)

English-language journals from Italy and Germany in the 1920s
  1. Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. November 1921-March 1923. Rome, Berlin. August 1923 - January 1924 New York (five issues)
English-language journals from Paris in the 1920s
  1. Exile [?]
  2. Gargoyle (July 1921-22). Arthur Moss and Florence Gilliam. [Vol. 3, no. 1: July 1922]
  3. Secession (8 issues; 1922-1924). Gorham D. Munson, Matthew Josephson
  4. Transition. (27 issues. First a monthly; from April 1927-March 1928; then a quarterly; from April 1928 to Apring 1938. Eugene Jolas, with his wife, Maria McDonald Jonas and with the help of Elliot Paul, Robert Sage, in the two last years of James Johnson Sweeney. Sylvia Bach also mentiones: Matthew Josephson, Harry Crosby, Carl Einstein, Stuart Gilbert.
  5. This Quarter
  6. transatlantic review (1924). F. M. Ford
  7. Commerce (french, english, italian) (August 1924 - April 1932). Ed.: Paul Valéry, Léon-Paul Fargue, Valery Larbaud
  8. Boulevardier (1927)
  9. Larus. A Celestial Visitor. 5 issues from February 1927 to June 1928 (3 numbers in one issue). Editors: Sherry Mangan, USA; Virgil Thompson from France + Oliver Jenkins.
  10. Tambour (1929-30). Harold J. Salemson, Editor. 8 issues.
  11. The Little Review in Paris in 1923.
  • Manikin c.1923, Bonn, New York
  • Three Mountains Press
  • Contact Editions
  • Black Sun Press
  • Nancy Cunard's Hours Press
  • Sign of the Black Manikin
Publishers and editors
  • Florence Gilliam, Arthur Moss: Gargoyle [The Gargoyles of Notre Dame?] (August 1921- September? 1922): Malcolm Cowley, Laurence Vail, Hart Crane, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Coates, Matthew Josephson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Gorham Munson, John Reed, Hilda Doolittle. Hemingway?
  • William Bill Bird (1888-1963): Three Mountains Press; Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, W. C. Williams
  • Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939); English Review (D. H. Lawrence, Hardy, Wells, James, Pound); transatlantic review, 2 Vols, 2 x 6 nos. [Paris] 1924 [but = Duckworth, London], with help from Ezra Pound and, pushing of young american authors included, by Hemingway, who helped editing and published the July, August editions on his own. 60 english, 40 french, 90 american contributions. The money came from John Quinn; and from Elizabeth and Krebs Friend.
  • Eugene Jolas. transition. American issue: summer 1928.
  • Edward Titus (1870-1952). Owner of the Black Manikin bookstore in Montparnasse. Published This Quarter after 1926. Married to Helena Rubinstein.
  • Ernest Walsh (d. 1926). This Quarter (with Ethel Moorhead).
  • Wheeler, 1923: Manikin-series, 1923 (Bonn, Germany; New York)
  • Marguerite Caetani: Commerce (in french, italian, english) august 1924- april 1932. (T.S. Eliot). Caetani came to Paris in 1902.

Authors[edit]

Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)[edit]

To Europe in 1920? England in the 1920s/30s? Returned home around 1940. Joan Aiken (September 9, 1924, Rye, Sussex- January 4, 2004, Petworth, West Sussex) is his daughter with canadian writer Jessie McDonald-Aiken.

  • In: Broom, # 1, Rome

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)[edit]

  • In: Broom, # 1, Rome

de:Nathan Asch (* 1902, in Warsaw, Poland; d. Dec., 23, 1964, San Francisco).[edit]

One of the two sons of famous dramatist Sholem Asch (1880-1957). In Paris from 1924.

  • The Voice of the Office. In: transatlantic review, Vol. 1, No. 6 [?], June 1924, p. 414-420.
  • Marc Krantz. In: transatlantic review, Vol. 2, No. 2 [?], August 1924, p. 144-153.
  • Gertrude Donovan. In: transatlantic review. Vol. 2, No. 6 [?], December 1924, p. 608-622.
  • < Dying in Carcassone. In: Forum, Vol. 84, November 1930, p. 305-310. >
  • Tod eines Helden. In: Neue Rundschau (Germany), Vol. 42, Jan. 1931, p. 95-107
  • Im stillen Thal. In: Neue Rundschau, Vol. 42, November 1931, p. 668-682.

Djuna Barnes/Djuna Chappell Barnes (1892-1982)[edit]

Lit.: Mary Lynn Broe: Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes. In Paris since 1921, abroad until 1939.

  • transatlantic review
  • A Little Girl Tells a Story to a Lady In: Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Three Mountains Press, Paris [1925]. 338 p. .
  • [Anonymous]: Ladies Almanack (showing their Signs and their Tides;...). Printed for the Author by Edward Titus at the (Sign of the) Black Manikin Press, Paris [!] 1928. 84 p. . In fact Robert Mc Almon paid for the book and Maurice Darantière in Dijon printed it.
  • Nightwood Introduction by T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber, London 1936

Gertrude Beasley (1892-1955)[edit]

  • My First Twenty Years. Contact Editions, Paris 1925

Ivan Beede (1896-1946)[edit]

From David City, near Lincoln, Nebraska. Vater: Simon Beede, Bruder Clark Beede.

  • The Storm (story). In: transatlantic review.
  • Prairie Woman. 1930.

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)[edit]

John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)[edit]

Lawrence Blochman/Lawrence Goldtree Blochmann (Feb. 17, 1900,- January 1975)[edit]

After graduation in 1921 journalist in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Calcutta and Paris (Chicago Tribune International Edition). Returned to his hometown San Diego in 1924. He published more than 50 books. He wrote mystery and detective novels and translated Georges Simenon.

Kay Boyle (1902-1992)[edit]

  • Short Stories. Editions Narcisse/ Black Sun Press, Pris 1929
  • Year before Last. Black Sun, Paris 1932.

William Aspenwall Bradley (1878-1939)[edit]

Louis Bromfield (1896-1956)[edit]

American Field Service, with honors, in WW 1. Spent a decade in France, returned home to Ohio in 1938.

  • Expatriate - Vintage 1927. In: Mirrors of the Year


Robert Carlton Brown/Bob Brown (1886-1959)[edit]

    • 1450-1930. Black Sun Press, Paris 1929. Visual Poetry.
    • (1450-1950. Jargon Books, NYC, NY 1959)
    • Globe-Gliding. Rovin Eye Press, Diessen, Netherlands, 1930. Poems
    • The Readies. Roving Eye Press, Bad Ems 1930
    • Bob Brown (editor): Readies for Bob Brown's Machine Rapid Eye Press, Cagnes-sur-Mer 1931.
    • Demonics Roving Eye Press, Cagnes-sur-Mer 1931. Poems
    • Words Nancy Cunard's Hours Press, 1931. Poems
    • Bob Brown (editor): A Censored Anthology. Rapid Eye Press, Cagnes-sur-Mer 1931. Poems

William Slater Brown (1896-1997)[edit]

Slater Brown is the B in E. E. Cummings' memoir The Enormous Room.

Louise Bryant/born Anna Louisa Mohan. Bryant was her stepfather. (1885-1936)[edit]

Married to John Reed and to William C. Bullitt.

  • Six Red Months in Russia. New York 1918

William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (1891-1967)[edit]

Kenneth Burke[edit]

In New York.

  • Book of Yul. In: Secession, 2, July 1922, p. 7-17.
  • Co-editor of Secession, no. 3
  • In Quest of Olympus. In: Secession, no. 4, January 1923, p. 5-18.
  • A Progression. In: Secession, no.7, winter 1924, p. 21-30.

Morley Callaghan (1903-1990)[edit]

Canadian short story writer and novelist. In Paris in 1929.

  • This Summer in Paris.

Ned Calmer (1907-1986)[edit]

1927-1934? Paris Tribune; Paris Herald. Later wrote Strange Land, on W.W. 2.

  • < All the Summer Days. Harcourt, Brace. 1934. On his time at the Chricago Tribune/European Edition. >

it:Emanuel Carnevali (4. Dezember 1897, Florence- 11. Januar 1942 [?], Bazzano)[edit]

Went to the USA in 1914, but was forced to return, because of an illness (1922). Met Max Eastman, Babette Deutsch, Alfred Kreymborg, Lola Ridge, read Ezra Pound, met Waldo Frank, Kay Boyle, Dorothy Dudley, William Carlos Williams, (who mentions him in his autobiography), Jack Jones, Annie Glick. Sherwood Anderson wrote an essay about him: Italian Poet in America (1941). Visitors in Italy: Ethel Moorhead, Ernest Walsh, Dorothy Dudley Moore, Harriet Moore, Robert McAlmon

  • In: Poetry Magazine (Harriet Monroe)
  • Sorrow's Headquarters. In: This Quarter, # 1, p. 3-12
  • The Hurried Man. Contact Editions with Three Mountains Press (essays and poems).
  • The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali Compiled & prefaced by Kay Boyle. Horizon Press, New York, 1967.

Robert M. Coates (1897-1973)[edit]

  • In: transition
  • The Eater of Darkness. Contact Editions, Paris

Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989)[edit]

American Field Service in France. War-Reporter. Later returned to Paris (for three years?).

  • Day Coach. In: Secession, No. 1, spring 1922, p. 1-3.
  • A Solemn Music In: Secession, no. 2, July 1922, p. 2
  • Two Swans. In: Secession, no. 2, 2, July 1922, p. 3.

Hart Crane (1899-1932)[edit]

  • In: Broom, Berlin
  • Poster [Voyages I]. In: Secession, no. 4, January 1923, p. 20.
  • < White Buildings. 1926 >
  • The Bridge. (in part?) In: transition
  • The Bridge: A Poem. Black Sun. Paris 1930. With three Walker Evans photos

Caresse Crosby (1892-1970)[edit]

4 books: priv. printed, Paris 1925, 1927, [n.d.]; Black Sun Press, Paris 1931.

Harry Crosby, Henry Grew Crosby (1898-1929)[edit]

6 books: privately printed, Paris 1925, 1927, 1927; Editions Narcisse (from 1927; later called) Black Sun Press, Paris 1929, 1929, 1930.

  • Editor: Anthology (privately-printed) (Darantiere, Dijon) 1924

Henry Crowder (1895-1954)[edit]

  • Henry Music. Nancy Cunard's Hours Press, 1931 [1930?]

Homer Croy (March 11, 1883, on a farm near Maryville, Missouri- May 24, 1965)[edit]

  • <They Had to See Paris. Harper & Brothers, 1926. Also a Will Rogers film. >

Countee Leroy Cullen (1903-1946)[edit]

To Paris in 1928 on a Guggenheim fellowship.

  • The Black Christ and Other Poems. Harper, 1929. Work completed in Paris.

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)[edit]

  • The Enormous Room.
  • Broom
  • Four Poems. In: Secession, 2, July 1922, p. 1-4.

H.D., Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)[edit]

To Europe in 1911. Meets John Cournos (1881-1966) and other writers and poets. Literary editor of The Egoist. In: transatlantic review.

  • < In: Poetry, January 1913 >
  • In: Des Imagistes: An Anthology. 1914.
  • Hymen. 1921
  • Heliodora and Other Poems 1924
  • Collected Poems of H.D.. 1925
  • Palimpsest. Contact Editions, 1926. Stories.
  • Her Dijon novels (printed by Darantière): Kora and Ka; Mira Mare; Two Americans; The Usual Star; Night
  • Sea Garden?

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)[edit]

John Howard Lawson and Robert Hillyer were in France driving ambulances with him.

  • One Man's Initiation: 1917
  • Three Soldiers
  • transatlantic review

Ralph Cheever Dunning (1878-1930)[edit]

To Paris in 1905; opium addict. Poetry 's Helen Haire Nevinson Prize. An etched portrait by Polia Chentoff, in This Quarter, Vol. II, No. 1, July, August, September 1929.

  • Hyllus. John Lane, London 1910.
  • In: Poetry 1916
  • Twelve poems, in: transatlantic Review, no. 11, 1924
  • The Four Winds. Poetry, April 1925
    • Ezra Pound: Mr. Dunning's Poetry.Poetry, September 1925
  • Rococo. E. W. Titus, Paris 1925 [1926?]
  • Windfalls E. W. Titus, Paris

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)[edit]

In Europe from 1910. Met Pound in 1914. editor of The Criterion. British subject in 1927; conversion to Anglo-Catholizism.

  • Prufrock and Other Observations In: The Egoist, 1917
  • The Waste Land. In: Criterion (and in: The Dial).
  • Letter; in: transatlantic review, no. 1

William Faulkner (1897-1962)[edit]

  • Sanctuary. Black Sun 1931?

Jessie Fauset[edit]

Afro-American.

  • Plum Bun. London 1928.

M. F. K. Fisher/Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (* 1908)[edit]

In France from 1929. Food-writer and food-historian.

F. Scott Fitzgerald[edit]

In the army in 1917. Wrote The Great Gatsby in Paris.

Janet Flanner (1892-1978)[edit]

1921 in Greece, from 1922 to 1975 in Paris, then in New York

  • (as Genàt): Letter from Paris, in: The New Yorker
  • The Cubical City. 1926. Repr.: Southern Illinois University Press 1975

John Gould Fletcher (1886-)[edit]

Met Pound in London in 1913, published his first five! books of verse there in May 1913.

Ralph Jules Frantz (* 1902)[edit]

Elizabeth Friend/ Elizabeth Krebs?[edit]

  • A Letter from America (from Iawatha, Kansas). In: transatlantic review. December 1924?

Harold Krebs Friend/Krebs Friend[edit]

  • In: transatlantic review
  • H. Krebs Friend: 'The Herdboy (poems). Three Mountains Press, Paris 1926. The last book of Three Mountain Press, but without any knowledge of the publisher, William Bird.
  • Harold Krebs Friend, Elise Voiart: La vierge d'Arduene. 1933 22. p. .
  • It Was Wisdom. 1937. 63 p. .

Virgil Geddes (1897, on a farm in Dixon County, Nebraska-1989)[edit]

W.W. 1 soldier. Journalist. 1924-'28: financial editor of the Herald Tribune in Paris.

  • Forty Poems. Editions des meilleurs livres, Paris 1926. Preface Elliot Paul.
  • Poems 41 to 70. 1926
  • The Frog. A Play in Five Scenes Edward Titus's Black Manikin Press, Paris 1926
  • < The Earth Between 1929. A play
  • Collected Poems. National Poetry Foundation.

Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (1895-1950)[edit]

In Paris 1924-26. Published two articles on music transition, # 8, 1927 and # 13, 1928

Florence Gilliam[edit]

Journalist, theatre critic. Early in 1921 to Paris with husband Arthur Moss. Founded the magazine Gargoyle , which lasted one year, in August, 1921. First English-language review of arts and letters to appear in Continental Europe in the period after the first and before the second WW. Divorced in 1931, Gilliam in Paris until 1941.

  • Paris Herald (European edition of the New York Herald): Round the Studios; Latin Quarter Notes
  • Paris Times
  • Paris Tribund (European edition of the Chicago Tribune)
  • France: A Tribute by an American Woman 1945.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940)[edit]

  • In: Peter Neagoe: Americans Abroad: An Anthology. Servire Press, The Hague [Amsterdam?] 1932

Herbert Gould[edit]

To France in 1924.

Wallace Gould (d. 1940?)[edit]

  • In the Contact Anthology.

William Goyen (1915-1983)[edit]

Julian Green[edit]

Born in Paris, but American citizen.

  • First book 1926

Ruth Gruber[edit]

  • I Went to the Soviet Arctic

Ramon Guthrie (1896-1973)[edit]

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)[edit]

  • Twenty-five Poems. Contact Editions, Paris 1923.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)[edit]

Journalist. In WW 1. In Paris from 1920.

  • In:
  • Three stories appeared in: transtlantic review:
  • Three Stories & Ten Poems. Contact Editions, Contact Publishing Co., Paris and Dijon [?] 1923
  • in our time. Three Mountains Press, Paris 1924. 32 p. 170 num. .
  • <In Our Time. Boni and Liveright, New York 1925.
  • In Our Time. Black Sun, Paris 1932.
  • <The Torrents of Spring. Scribner's, New York 1926. [?]>
  • The Torrents of Spring. Black Sun 1932
  • In the 1920s Hemingway also published a few stories and (obscene?) poetry in the German magazine Der Querschnitt.

Jesephine Frey Herbst (1892-1969)[edit]

Lived in Germany from 1922 to 1925, then in Paris. Returned to Pennsylvania in 1928. In 1930 visited Austria and the Soviet Union; 1932: Mexico; 1935: Cuba and Germany, for the New York Post. Journalist in the Spanish Civil War. Stalinist. She was married (1926-1934) to writer, and later Soviet spy, John Herrmann.

John Herrmann (1900-1959)[edit]

Writer. Paris, later communist and spy for Russia.

  • What Happens. Contact Editions, Paris 1928 (a tale)
  • Summer Is Ended 1932
  • The Salesman. 1939

Guy Hickok[edit]

Journalist.

  • transatlantic review

Robert Hillyer[edit]

W.W. 1 volunteer. Critc of Pound.

Maurice G. Hindus (1891-1969)[edit]

On Russia.

Brian Howard (poet) (1905-1958)[edit]

  • God Save the King. The Hours Press 1930. Brite or Amerikaner? (beide Eltern Amerikaner).

Sidney Howard (1891-1939)[edit]

Soldier im WW 1. Playwrite, screenwriter. Translator.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)[edit]

In Paris for five months.

  • Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough/ Peggy Hull (pen name)

Journalist; war reporter: Mexican Revolution; WW 1; US-american military expedition to Sibiria

Katryne Hulme (1900-1981)[edit]

In Europe in the 1930s.

Bravig Imbs/Bravig Wilbur Eugene Imbs (Milwaukee, 1904-1944?)[edit]

  • Eden: Exit This Way and Other Poems. Privatdruck von Geoffrey Fraser, Paris 1926

Eugene Jolas (1894-1952)[edit]

(With Maria Jolas) editor of transition (1927-1938); Volontes (1938-39); Poet with many books, translator. Unpublished memoirs dictated to his wife.

Matthew Josephson (1899-1978)[edit]

With Gorham D. Munson editor of Secession. Editor of Broom in Berlin (started by Harold Loeb)

  • The Oblate. In: Secession, 2, July 1922, 21-29.

Jed Kiley (1889-1962)[edit]

Edwin M. Lanham (1904-1979)[edit]

Married to Kay Boyle's sister Joan Boyle Lanham from ¹929-1936.

  • Sailors Don't Care. Contact Editions, Paris 1929.
  • < Banner at Daybreak. Longman's Green. New York 1937. (about Paris and McAlmon)>

Ring Lardner[edit]

  • transatlantic review August 1924.

Janet Lewis/Janet Loxley Lewis (1899-1998)[edit]

Married to Yvor Winters.

  • The Indians in the Woods. Monroe Wheeler's Manikineditions, no.1, Bonn 1922. Poems. Reprint: Matrix Press, 1980

Else von Freytag-Loringhoven[edit]

  • transatlantic review. August 1924

Amy Lowell[edit]

  • In: Broom, # 1, Rome

Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976)[edit]

  • Apollinaire: An Elegy. Hours Press, Paris 1930
  • W. Lowenfels, Michael Fraenkel: Anonymous. The Need for Anonymity. Carrefour Press, Paris 1930.
  • USA with Music: An Operatic Tragedy. 1931
  • Elegy in the Manner of a Requiem in Memory of D. H. Lawrence. Carrefour, Paris 1932
  • The Suicide. Carrefour, Paris 1934

Mina Loy/Mina Gertrude Löwry (1892-1966)[edit]

Born in London; naturalized U.S. citizen

  • Lunar Baedeker. Contact Editions

Robert McAlmon (1895-1956)[edit]

  • Explorations. Egoist Press, London 1921
  • A Hasty Bunch. Dijon 1922.
  • In: transatlantic review, December 1924.
  • Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Contact Editions, Three Mountains Press, Paris [1925]. Authors: Djuna Barnes, Bryher, Mary Butts, Norman Douglas, Havelock Ellis, F. M. Ford, Wallace Gould, Ernest Hemingway, Marsden Hartley, H. D., John Herrman (Work in Progress), James Joyce, Mina Loy, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein (Two Women), William Carlos Williams (Marianne Moore)
  • <more books from Paris/ until 1932>

Claude McKay (1889-1948)[edit]

Jamaica born, went to the USA to study, in New York c.1914-19. In Europe for most of the 1920s, wrote some of his best work in Marseilles. Published books in London (c.1920) and in Russia (1924, and later), but also in the USA: Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo (1930).

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)[edit]

Soldier in WW 1 (ambulance and artillery). In Paris and France 1923-28.

    • Einstein. Black Sun 1929
    • New Found Land; Fourteen Poems. Black Sun 1930

Marianne Moore[edit]

  • In: Broom, Berlin.

Arthur Moss[edit]

  • Edited the magazine The Quill, A Magazine of Greenwich Village. Moss, New York, 1917-1921
  • With Florence Gilliam Moss edited Gargoyle in Paris (1921-1923)
  • Edited Boulevardier (1927-1932) .
  • transatlantic review. (Attack on George Antheil). December 1924
  • <The Legend of the Latin Quarter. Beechhurst 1946. >
  • <Tale of Twelve Cities. 1963.>

Gorham Munson/Gorham Bockhaven Munson/ Gorham Bert Munson (1896-1969)[edit]

1922-24: Secession. Printed in Vienna and (no. 4) in Florence?

  • The American Murkury. In: Secession, no. 7, winter 1924, p. 32 [?]

Peter Neagoe[edit]

  • Storm. New Review Editions, 1932. (short stories)
  • 2nd edition with The Obelisk Press, Paris 1932
  • (editor) Americans Abrod: An Anthology... Servire Press. With Emma Goldman...

Donald G. Parker[edit]

Dorothy Parker[edit]

    • Laments for the Living. Black Sun 1932

Elliot Harold Paul (1891-1958)[edit]

Soldier in WW1 (fighting troops); Newspaper column A Litterateur's Notebook, in: Chicago Tribune, International Edition (Paris).

Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980)[edit]

  • French Song Book. Harrison of Paris 1932?

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)[edit]

  • A Lume Spento. A. Antonini, Venice 1908. (privately printed)
  • A Quinzaine for this Yule. London 1908
  • Personae. London 1909
  • Exultations. London 1909
  • The Spirit of Romance. London 1910. essays
  • Canzoni. London 1911
  • Rispostes. London 1912. <...>
  • Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press (John Rodker)
  • A Draft of XVI Cantos. Three Mountains Press, Paris 1925 [1923?]
  • Indiscretions, or, Une Revue des deux mondes. Three Mountains Press, Paris 1923
  • (s William Atheling): Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony, Three Mountains Press, Paris 1924
  • A Draft of the Cantos 17-27 of Ezra Pound. John Rodker, London 1928. With Gladys Hynes
  • A Draft of XXX Cantos. 1930. Nancy Cunard's The Hours Press 1930
  • Imaginary Letters. Black Sun 1930

Samuel Whitehall Putnam (1892-1950)[edit]

Paris Was Our Mistress: Memories of a Lost and Found Generation. The Viking Press, New York 1947

Burton Rascoe[edit]

In Paris in 1924.

  • < We Were Interrupted. Grden City, 1947 >

John Reed (1887-1920)[edit]

Mexico; Russia.

Laura Riding[edit]

Edouard Roditi (June 6, 1910, Paris - May 10, 1992, Paris)[edit]

Born in Paris (grandfather and father US-citizen), and there again from 1954. Lived in the US continuously only from 1937-1946. 1919: Elstree school, Herfortshire; Charterhouse; 1927-28: Balliol College, Oxford; 1923. 1939: University of Chicago, B.A.

Poetry, prose in: transition; poetry in: Poetry. All in all more than 25 volumes of poetry, fiction, translation, art criticism (for L'Arche), reviews. He wrote in both French and English (and at least two other modern languages), spoke seven languages fluently and translated from more than ten (incl. Turkish).
  • Poems for F.. Editions du Sagittaire, Paris 1935 (english)
  • < Prison within Prison: Three Elegies on Hebrew Themes. The Press of James A. Decker, Prairie City, Ill., 1941 >
  • < G. A. Borgese. 1942 >
  • Oscar Wilde, Dichter und Dandy. H. Klüger, München 1947.
  • <Oscar Wilde. New Directions, 1947 >
  • <Poems, 1928-1948. New Directions, New York 1949 >
  • Selbstanalyse eines Sammlers. Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln 1960
  • < Dialogues on Art. Horizon Press, New York 1960? 1961? >
  • De l'homosexualité. Paris 1962
  • < New Hieroglyphic Tales: Prose Poems. Kayak Books, San Francisco 1968
  • Magallan of the Pacific. Faber & Faber, London 1972
  • Emperor of Midnight 1974
  • Trice Chosen: Poems on Jewish Themes. 1974
  • The Confessions of a Saint 1977
  • < The Delights of Turkey: Twenty Tales. New Directions 1974 >
  • < Meetings with Conrad. The Press of the Pegacyle Lady, Los Angeles 1977 >
  • < More Dialogues on Art. Santa Barbara 1984 >
  • < Dialogues:Conversations with European Artists at Mid-Century. San Francisco 1990 >
  • The Journal of an Apprentice Cabbalist. Cloud, Newcastle upon Tyne 1991
  • < Choose Your Own World. Asylum Arts, Santa Maria, Calif., 1992. >

Harold J. Salemson (*1910)[edit]

Edited Tambour.

William Buehler Seabrook (1884-1945)[edit]

WW 1 soldier.

Shirer (* 1904)[edit]

Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)[edit]

Lived in Germany and in China. (Published all her work in the USA?)

Evan Biddle Shipman (1904-1957)[edit]

Born in New Hampshire. Mother: Ellen Biddle Shipman. Father writer?

  • transatlantic review. December?
  • Free for All. 1935

Harold Stearns[edit]

Famous Drunk.

Lincoln Steffens (1846-1936)[edit]

Muckraking journalist. 1910 Mexican Revolution. Since 1919/1921 communist propagandist. New Deal: California Writers Programm (a front?)

  • transatlantic review

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)[edit]

In Paris from 1903 [1912?] to 1946.

  • The Making of Americans. Chapter 1, in: transatlantic review, April; more in September, December (?)
  • The Making of Americans. Contact Editions, Paris 1926 <much more>

Wallace Stevens[edit]

  • In: Broom, # 1, Rome
  • Last Look at the Lilacs. In: Secession, no. 4, January 1923, p. 19.

Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980)[edit]

  • transatlantic review. July, August 1924;
  • Morning of Mrs. Gordon Smythe. December? 1924.

Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970)[edit]

Elma Taylor (b. Huron, South Dakota)[edit]

Chicago Little Theatre; Articles in the Chicago Evening Post.

  • Calico (story). In: transatlantic review

Graeme Taylor (1905-1957)[edit]

  • transition
  • This Quarter

James Thurber (1894-1961)[edit]

Alice B. Toklas/Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967)[edit]

Jean Toomer[edit]

  • In: Broom, Berlin

Ernest Walsh (d. 16. October 1926)[edit]

Editor of the first two numbers of This Quarter (# 1, January 1925; # 2, Winter 1925-26 (?)); friend of Ethel Moorhead; Kay Boyle.

Glenway Wescott (1901-1987)[edit]

  • <The Bitterns (NY) 1920. 12 poems, chap-book>
  • The Quarter's Books. In: transatlantic review, Literary Supplement, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 447f., 1924.
  • Like A Lover. Morton Wheeler's Manikin, Villefrance-sur-Mer (Riviera) 1926
  • The Babe's Bed. Harrison of Paris (Morton Wheeler), Paris 1930
  • A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers. Harrison of Paris, Paris 1932.

Nathaniel West (1903-1940)[edit]

  • The Dream Life of Basso Snell. Contact Edition, Paris 1931

Morton Wheeler[edit]

Publisher. First chapbooks in New York in 1920. In 1921 in Germany (Bonn).

  • A Typographical Commonplace Book. Harrison of Paris (Morton Wheeler), 1932

John Brooks Wheelwright[edit]

In Florence s.1924. Edited Secession, no. 4, 1922 with J. Then early in 1923 nos. 5, 6 alone from Florence.

  • North Atlantic Passage. Privately printed, Florence 1925

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)[edit]

  • Spring and All. Contact Editions, Paris 1923
  • The Great American Novel. Three Mountains Press, Paris 1923
  • The Attempt. In: Secession, no. 3, August 1922, p. 1-4.
  • The Hothouse Plant. In: Secession, no. 4, January 1923, p. 21.
  • On McAlmon, in: transatlantic review, August 1924.

Ella Winter/Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart (1898-2008)[edit]

Married to Lincoln Steffens (d. 1936) and Hollywood screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980). Communist, propagandist. Fled to England in 1952. Hemingway: 'unpleasant Bloomsbury yid'.

  • Red Virtue: Human Relationships in the New Russia. Harcourt, Brace and Company/ Victor Gollancz, New York/ London 1933
  • I Saw the Russian People. Little, Brown and Company, 1945

The Caribbean[edit]

Henry St. Clair Whitehead (1882-1932)[edit]

Virgin Islands

  • William B. Seabrook; Zora Neale Hurston

Haiti, Voodoo

Hugh B. Cave (1910-2004)[edit]

Jamaica, Haiti. Voodoo

  • Claude McKay, George Padmore

Derek Walcott[edit]

Lives Between St. Luca and the USA.

1950s Tangiers (International Zone); Maroc[edit]

  • Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs. Ira Cohen

Europe; from the late 1930s to the 1950s[edit]

Afro-American authors[edit]

    • Heritage

Paul Breman (1931- 2008), a Dutchman living in London, published his "Heritage" series of poetry-books by Afro-American writers in London (in 1962 and 1963 and from 1968 to 1975)

1.) Robert Hayden. "The Ballad of Remembrance". 1962

2.) "Sixes and Sevens. An Anthology of New Poetry". 1962. Edited by Paul Breman and Rosey Pool

3.) Frank Horne. "Haverstraw". 1963

4.) Arna Bontemps. "Personals". 1963

5.) Conrad Kent Rivers. "The Still Voice of Harlem". 1968

7.) Russell Atkins. Heretofore. 1968

8.) Lloyd Addison. "The Aura & the Umbra". 1970

9.) Audre Lorde. "Cables to Rage". 1970

Dudley Randall. "Love You". 1970

11.) Ishmael Reed. catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church". 1970

12.) James W. Thompson [Abba Elethea] "First Fire: Poems 1957 - 1960".

13.) Owen Dodson: "THe Confession Stone: Song Cycles". 1970

Clarence Major. "Private Line". 1971

Mukhtarr Mustapha. "Thorns and Thistles". 1971

Ray Durem. "Take No Prisoners". 1971

Harold Carrington. "Drive Suite". 1972

Conrad Kent Rivers. "The Wright Poems". 1972


23.) Sebastian Clarke. "Sun Song". 1973.

18.) Conrad Kent Rivers. "The Wright Poems". Foreword by Ronald L. Fair. Rivers had died in 1968.

22.) Frank John. "Light a Fire". 1973.

(William) Waring Cuney. "Storefront Church". 1973

Dolores Kendrick. "Through the Ceiling". 1974

Ellease Southerland (Ebele Oseye). "The Magic Sun Spins". 1974

26.) Ronald L. Fair. "Excerpts"

27.) Samuel Allen. "Paul Vesey's Ledger". 1975

20.) Robert Hayden "The Night-blooming Cereus". 1972

21.) Esoghene [C. Lindsay Barrett]. "The Conflicting Eye".

???) Mari Evans. "Where Is All the Music?" [Printed, but not released]

Expat authors who published all their books in the USA first (?)[edit]

James Baldwin

Paul Bowles

Carson McCullers

Mavis Gallant

Patricia Highsmith

James Jones

Sylvia Plath

Gore Vidal

Richard Wright.

Paris in 1946, after Native Sun. Wrote The Outsider in Europe, Black Power (1954).

  • Visitors: Truman Capote, Tennessee williams, Norman Mailer. Saul Bellow?, David Solomon, Seymour Krim, Christopher Logue, Mason

Papers[edit]

The Paris News-Post; Harold "Doc" Humes, publisher

Magazines, Little Magazines[edit]

    • Botteghe oscure
    • Merlin (Jane Lougee; 7 issues 1952-1954)
    • Nine
    • New-Story: The Monthly Magazine for the Short Story.

Editors of the first issue: Jean-Francois Bergery, David Burnett (1931-1971), Eric Protter, Sylvia Leonard. Later? Robert Burford

Published: No. 1, March 1951- No. 13 [Februry 1953?] (started as a monthly). Gargoyle Press, New York City (editorial office in Paris). Authors incl. (No. 1:) Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers; Joseph Cowley, The Thief; Ray Bradbury, The Other Foot. Later issues: Alison Lurie, James Baldwin, Terry Southern. Isaac Asimov (One Night of Song)???. Eric Protter was fiction editor for Penthouse (U.S.) in the 1970s

    • Points; editor: Sinbad Vail, son of Peggy Guggenheim. Mordecai Richler. 1949: James Lord (author)
    • Zero (from 1949; Thermistocles Hoetis, Asa Benveniste)
    • Locus Solus (Harry Mathews)
    • Art and Language (John Ashbery)
    • Olympia (the journal of the Olympia press).


Little Magazines in Germany[edit]

Das Lot

RhinoZeros

Akzente

Publishers[edit]

    • for Bottege oscure: Marguerite Caetani (Milan, Italy), who had published Commerce in Paris from 1924. Botteghe Oscure was published (for a time) with the help of Eugene Walter.
    • The Transatlantic Review, founded, edited by Joseph F. McCrindle (from 1959); from Rome, London, New York

Nelson Algren[edit]

Samuel Allen/Samuel W. Allen; pen name: Paul Vesey (* 1917?, near Savannah, Georgia)[edit]

  • In: Janheinz Jahn (ed.): Schwarzer Orpheus. Hanser, München 1954. 5 poems, again in:
  • Elfenbeinzähne: Ivory Tusks. Rothe, Heidelberg 1956. (english and german)
    • Ivory Tusks and Other Poems. Poets Press, 1968
    • Paul Vesey's Lodger. Heritage, London, 1975

Aram Avakian[edit]

Paris. Filmmaker, editor.

Russell Atkins[edit]

  • In: Janheinz Jahn (ed.): Schwarzer Orpheus. Hanser, München 1954. 1 original poem. (only in german)

James Baldwin[edit]

  • Everybody's Protest Novel. In: Zero: Review of Literature and Art # 1, spring 1949. Editors: Themistocles Hoetis (George Solomos) and Albert Beneviste (Asa Beneviste).
  • Play: The Amen Corner; Act One, Zero # 6, July 1954

Diane Bataille (* June 4, 1918, Victoria (British Columbia), Canada)[edit]

    • XXX: The Whip Angels. Olympia Press, T. C., 1955. Banned in France in 1956 ("XXX", "Selena Warfield" and Diane Bataille's real name were all used, in different editions). She was married to Georges Bataille in 1951.

Asa Beneveniste/Albert Benveniste[edit]

Co-editor ZERO (# 1-4, 1949-); Trigram Press, London;

Jane Bowles[edit]

Paul Bowles[edit]

Paris, Tangiers. Musician and writer.

Jounalist. Friend of Chester Himes'.

Baird Bryant (December 12, 1927, Columbus, Indiana; d. November 13, 2008, after complications with surgery)/ pen name: Willie Baron[edit]

Paris, Merlin, Olympia Press; Cinematographer: The Seducers (1962); documentaries: The Cool World (1964) Harlem gang drama; Gimme Shelter (Altamont film); Broken Rainbow (1985) Navajo replacement in New Mexico (coal-mining); Heart of Tibet (1991). Lit.:

Art Buchwald[edit]

The Paris-Herald Tribune.

Gail Lumet Buckley[edit]

Worked at the Paris Review

Jock Carroll (Toronto)[edit]

  • Bottoms Up /The Sky Pornographer. Olympia TC, No. 1

Ronald Verlin Cassill[edit]

WWII; Paris for a year.

  • < The Eagle on the Coin. 1950
  • Dormitory Women Lion Books, 1954
  • R. V. Cassill, Eric Protter: The Left Bank of Desire. Ace, New York 1955. 160 p.
  • The Hungering Shame Avon,New York 1956
  • A Taste of Sin Ace, 1956
  • The Wound of Love Avon 1956 >

Walter Coleman[edit]

Afro-American, friend to Hugh Satterfield (Afro-American and artist). Paris. c.1954. Married Torun Bülow Hübe (vgl. Peter Weiss).

Thomas Convington/Tom Dent (pen name) (* 1932, New Orleans)[edit]

  • In: Janheinz Jahn (ed.): Schwarzer Orpheus [1964-edition]. Hanser, München 1964. 2 original poems (in german translation)

Tom A. Cullen/Tom Cullen (1913-2001)[edit]

Communist. G.I. Bill, Paris

  • Autumn of Terror
  • The Empress Brown

Edward Dahlberg[edit]

  • Sing O'Barren. London 1947.

J. P. Donleavy (* 1923)[edit]

Dublin.

  • The Ginger Man. Olympia Press, Paris 1955

Mari Evans[edit]

  • In: Janheinz Jahn (ed.): Schwarzer Orpheus [1964-edition]. Hanser, München 1964. 2 original poems (in german translation)
    • Where Is All the Music. Heritage, London. Printed, but not released!
    • Through the CeilingLondon: Paul Brennan, 1975
    • Nightstar. Los Angeles, 1981

George Fetherling[edit]

Canadian.

Charles Henri Ford[edit]

  • Charles Henri Ford, Parker Tyler: The Young and Evil. Obelisk 1933
  • Seven Poems. Bardo Matrix, Starstream Editions, Kathmandu 1975

Michael Fraenkel (1896-1957)[edit]

Hamlet

Samuel Fuller (film-director)[edit]

<published a lot of books, some first in Europe>

Richard Gibson[edit]

Friend of Chester Himes' and Smith'.

Herbert Gold[edit]

Paris. 1960s?

John Glassco (1909-1981)[edit]

Born in Montreal, went to Paris in 1928.
    • Conan's Fig. in: transition, 1928
    • First chapter of his memoirs (Memoirs of Montparnasse 1970 [written in 1964]) in: This Quarter, 1929
    • A hoax: as "Jean de Saint-Luc": Contes en crinoline. Elias Gaucher, Paris 1930. This book is non-existant.
    • as "Miles Underwood": The English Governess. Ophelia Press, Paris 1960.
    • Aubrey Bearsdley, completed by John Glassco: Under the Hill. Olympia Press, T. C., No. 105, Paris 1959. Beardsley's novel (fragment) about Venus and Tannhäuser was completed by John Glassco. Also: Grove, New York 1959.

Ollie Harrington[edit]

Pittsburgh Courier cartoonist. Paris.

Chester Himes (* 1909)[edit]

Born into a respectable southern family. Sentenced for armed robbery in 1928 (7 years Ohio state penitentiary). Lived with Vandi Haygood ('The Primitive). Short stories for Esquire. Translated into French by Yves Maltric (Au pays du bon dieu - Experiences of a black G.I. in France) To Europe (Paris, later: the South of France, Spain) in 1953. Girlfriends included Regine Fischer, Harrington's ex-girlfriend.

  • <If He Hollers Let Him Go. 1945>
  • <Cast the First Stone. [? La Croisade de Lee Gordon]
  • Lonely Crusade
  • The Third Generation. Plon
  • La Din d'un primitif. Gallimard
  • La Reine des pommes.
  • Mamie Mason. Plon
  • Tout pour plaire. Librairie, Paris 1959. [The Big Gold Dream]
  • Pinktoes. Olympia Press, Paris 1961 <many more books first published in Paris/and in French>
  • Une Affaire de viol [A Case of Rape]. Christiane Rochefort (preface). Les Yeux Ouverts. [Summer] 1963 [soon to be bancrupt]
  • <The Quality of Hurt. Doubleday, New York 1972>
  • <My Life of Absurdity. Doubleday, New York 1976>
  • The Crazy Kill. Avon original. (not The Berkeley Press)
  • The Real Cool Killers. Avon original (not The Berkeley Press)

Mason Hoffenberg[edit]

New York poet; Paris. Terry Southern.

Harold L. Humes/ "Doc" Humes[edit]

Co-founder Paris Review. 2 novels:

  • The Underground City. 1957
  • Men Die. 1959

Marilyn Kanterman/"Meeske"/pseud. Henry Crannach[edit]

Olympia Press author.

Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927)[edit]

Paris; Fulbright. Europe, Middle East

Margaret Laurence (July 18, 1926-January 5, 1987)[edit]

Canadian novelist. London. British Somaliland. Some years on the Gold Coast. London. USA.

Irving Layton[edit]

Canadian.

  • In the Midst of My Fever. [February] 1954. Divers Press, Palma.

James Lord (author)[edit]

  • The Lizard. In: Points, Summer 1949 (Vail, editor)
  • The Boy Who Wrote NO. In: Horizon, No. 120-121, December 1949 - January 1950, London (Cyril Connoly, editor)
  • < Stories of Youth (memoir) >

Logue[edit]

  • Wand and Quadrant [?]

Peter Matthiessen[edit]

Paris, co-founder Paris Review. Often in Africa. CIA?

Henry Miller[edit]

  • Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press (Jack Kahane), Paris 1934
  • Aller Retour New York 1935
  • Black Spring. Obelisk, 1936
  • Un Etre etoilique. Privatdruck, Paris 1937.
  • Scenario: A Film with Sound. 1937
  • Max and the White Phabocytes. The Obelisk Press, Seurat Editions, Paris 1938
  • Tropic of Capricorn. Obelisk-Seurat, Paris 1939
  • Quiet Days in Clichy. Olympia Press, Paris 1956
  • What Are You Going to Do about Alf?. Trigram Press, London 1971

Ray Nelson/Radell Faraday Nelson (* 1931)[edit]

SF Author. For four years in Paris. Met Sartre and Vian and the Beats. Later co-editor of the little magazine The Miscellaneous Man. San Francisco, Calif., 1954-1959. No. 1, April 1954 - No. 15, Summer 1959. [No. 8, Aug. 1956; No. 9, 1957; No. 10, Jan. 1957. No. 14, Spring 1958]. Editor William Julius Margolis (* 1927) - later editor of: Mendiacant, No. 1, Autumn 1961. Also in: Whetstone, No. 1 Spring 1955; Author of: a) The Little Love of Our Yearning; b) The Eucalyptus Poems (1974)

Anais Nin[edit]

    • D. H. Lawrence. Sign of the Black Manikin Press, Paris 1932
    • House of Incest. Siana Editions, Louveciennes 1936. Later: Obelisk, Paris 1936
    • The Winter of Artifice. Obelisk, Paris 1939
  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita 1955. 2 Vols.!. Later with Putnam's, New York
  • Dorothy Parker: Laments for the Living. Black Sun 1932

Gloria C. Oden[edit]

  • In: Janheinz Jahn: Schwarzer Orpheus. [1964-edition]. Hanser, München 1964. 2 original poems (geman translation)

Iris Owens (1929-2008), née Klein (* NYC)[edit]

The daughter of a professional gambler. Barnard College! Married; went to Paris, fell in love with Alexander Trocchi

  • Darling. 1956 All Olympus books as by "Harriet Daimler"
  • The Pleasure Thieves. 1956. Harriet Daimler, with "Henry Crannach" (= Marilyn Kanterman)
  • Innocence, 1957.
  • The Organisation, 1957
  • The Woman Thing, 1958
  • After Claude. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1973
  • Hope Diamond Refuses. 1984

Melvin Van Peebles/William Van Peebles?[edit]

All four of his novels first published in France.

  • Un Ours pour le F.B.I. Burchet/Chastel, Paris 1964. 190 pp. [A Bear for the FBI]
  • Un Americain en enfer. Editions Denoel, Paris 1965
  • The Big Heart. Paris
  • Text for Wolinsky's comic strip La Reine des pommes (Hara-Kiri mgazine)

Oliver Pitcher[edit]

  • In: Janheinz Jahn (ed.): Schwarzer Orpheus. Hanser, München 1954. 1 original poem (german translation).

George Plimpton[edit]

Co-Founder Paris Review

Marie Ponsot[edit]

Married a Frenchman. 3 years in Paris.

Frederic Prokosch (1906-1989)[edit]

WW 2. 1. Roman 1935

Eric Protter[edit]

  • Ronald Verlin Cassill, Eric Protter: The left-Bank of Desire. 1955

Mordecai Richler[edit]

Canadian from Montreal. Paris. First story in the little magazine Points, edited by Sinbad Veil???

Edwin Rolfe, pen name of Solomon Fishman (1909-1954)[edit]

Communist.

  • Elegia. Mexico 1949. First publication of Elegia (translated into Spanish)

Robert Ruark[edit]

From 1951 he was in Africa every year (he wrote about the Mau Mau uprising). He lived in Spain from around 1955 to 1965, when he died in middle age.

Norman Rubington[edit]

Aka: Akbr del Piombo

Richard Seaver[edit]

Merlin, Evergreen Review

William Gardner Smith (* 1927, South Philadelphia; died November 5, 1974)[edit]

Afro-American writer. Short stay in Berlin. Paris. From September 1964 to Febraury 1966 in Ghana.

  • Anger at Innocence. Club du Livre - selection (! before R. Wright's Native Son)
  • South Street. 1954
  • Ballets Roses. Written 1957-1960.
  • <The Stone Face. Pocket Books, New York 1964>
  • <Return to Black America. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1970. L'Amérique noire>

George Solomos, George Paul Solomos, pen name Themistocles Hoetis (1948-58 (* 1925, Detroit)[edit]

ZERO Magazine. # 1, spring 1949, Paris; # 2, summer 1949, Paris; # 3-4, fall-winter 1949-50, Tangiers?; # 5, June 1954; # 6 , July 1954, Mexico?; # 7, spring 1956, New York; # 8, Fall 1956, New York; winter 1979-80, Philadelphia; ZERO Press (from 1956); [The Solomos guy is obviously barmy]. Solomos was married to Gidske Anderson

  • < The Man Who Went Away. Pellerini & Cudahy, New York 1952 >
  • < Thermopylae (unpublished) >

Terry Southern[edit]

In Paris on the G. I. Bill. News-Story, June 1951 (story The Automatic Gate); The Paris News-Post [Harold Humes, owner] (February, 1952); Paris Review (The Accident, P. R., No. 1, September, 1952); P. R., Feb. 1953; London Mystery Magazine

  • Flash and Filigree. 1958

Herbert Southworth[edit]

Spain. Post-WW2: Radio Tangiers. His big theme was the Spanish Civil War.

William Styron[edit]

Paris

Gay Talese[edit]

  • Looking for Hemingway. In: Esquire, 1963 (memoir of the Paris Review crowd)

Gore Vidal[edit]

In Italy.

  • A Thirsty Evil. Zero Press, 1956?

Austryn Wainhouse[edit]

  • Hedyphagetica [Fastings]. Collection Merlin, Paris 1954. (hedone = pleasure)

Eugene Walter[edit]

  • Monkey Poems. Editions Finisterre, Paris 1953

Richard Wright[edit]

  • The Man Who Killed a Shadow. In: ZERO, # 1. 1949

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling[edit]

Paris, affaire with Susan Sontag. Diaries. Published three (?) pieces in the New Story Magazine" or "New Story" magazine (c.1950/51?).

  • Notes of a Nude Model

Afro-Americans in Accra, Ghana, c.1962-64[edit]

Maya Angelou, St. Clair Drake, Martin L. Kilson, Jr. (* 1931), Leslie Allexander Lacey, Julian Mayfield. Tom Feelings (and William Gardner Smith)

Objectivism, Concretism, Postmodernism[edit]

  • Williams' Jargon Society (some years from Germany), Creeley's Divers Press (Palma, Mallorca, 1953-5)

[U.K., Lit.: Ken Edwards

  • Bob Cobbing: Hendon Experimental Art Group - founded in 1951; Cobbing, John Rowan: Writers Forum. Massive number of poetry books, broadsides.
  • Gael Turnbull (a Scotish medical doctor: Migrant Press), Michael Shayer: Migrant magazine: Creeley, Duncan, Olson, Hollo.
  • Tom Raworth: Outburst, 1961. + Barry Hall: Goliard Press. Hollo, J. Williams, Robert Kelly
  • Trigram Press; Fulcrum Press, London. T.: Benveniste himself, Brian Marley, Jack Hirschmann
  • Andrew Crozier: Ferry Press. Fielding Dawson, Tom Clark
  • Grosseteste Review/ Douglas Oliver: The Harmless Building
  • Eric Mottram, 1971-77, editor of Poetry Review. (the organ of the Poetry Society). Muriel Rukeyser, Duncan, Michael McClure, Bill Butler, Gilbert Sorrentino.
  • Peter Hodgkiss, Poetry Information. (until 1980). Then: Galloping Dog Press
  • Peter Green, Spectacular Diseases. (1976)
  • Peter Larkin: Prest Roots Press
  • Ric Caddel: Pig Press; Creeley, Rakosi
  • Maggie O'Sullivan: Magenta
  • Anthony Barnett: Allardyce Barnett-imprint. Crozier, Prynne, Oliver, Veronica Forrest-Thomson
  • Cris Cheek: Sound & Language
  • Rod Mengham: Equipage. Caroline Bergvall, David Chaloner, Ulli Freer, Michael Haslam, Grace Lake, Tony Lopez, Prynne, Raworth]
  • LANGUAGE- poets (U.S.: James Sherrys Roof). 1980s, U.K.: Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPrima, Hannah Weiner, Gil Ott, Steve Benson, Diane Ward, Rosemarie Waldrop, Bob Perelman, Larry Price. In the U.K. by Ken Edwards.
  • Ken Edwards' magazines: Alembic (1970s); Reality Studios (the magazine). no. 1, 1978 - no. 10, 1988. <monthly newsletter; then annual volumes> R.St.-books: John Seed, John Welch
  • Street Editions.
  • Women Poets, Multicultural Poets etc., journal How(ever): Wendy Mulford, Reality Street Editions. [U.K. poets Kelvin Corcoran, Allen Fisher, Maggie O'Sullivan, Denise and Peter Riley]. Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, anthology: Out of Everywhere. < also: Leslie Scalapino, Rosmarie Waldrop, Kathleen Fraser >
  • Susan Gevitz, HOW(ever); Avec; online: HOW2
  • John Gilmore (Canadian, Montreal; Jazz writer)
  • Jim Goar, SBP. 2010
  • John Hall (visual poet)
  • Sarah Riggs, Paris based; Editions de l'attente
  • Lisa Robertson, from Vancouver

Info.: Geoffrey Soar, former curator Small Press Collection, University College Library, London.

Vito Acconci[edit]

Had Poetry published in Britain. c.1968?

John Ashbery (1927)[edit]

Carl Andre[edit]

Some of his (early 1960s?) poems published in Italy, 1974

  • Asa Benveniste

Trigram Press

Paul Blackburn[edit]

  • Proensa. Divers Press, Palma [June] 1953 (translations of Provencal poetry)
  • The Dissolving Fabric. Divers Press, Palma. (artists: Dan Rice, Arthur Okmura)

Tom Clark (* 1941, Chicago)[edit]

Poet

  • Airplanes. Once Press, Brightlingsea, Essex. 1966
  • The Sand Burg: Poems. Ferry Press, London 1966.
  • The Emperor of the Animals. Goliard Press, London 1967. 3-Act Play, London 1966.
  • The No Book. Ant's Forefoot. Wivenhoe Park, Essex. 1971

Robert Coover (1932)[edit]

Lived in White Horses, Deal, Kent, U.K. for a time.

Robert Creeley[edit]

Divers Press, from Palma de Mallorca, 1953-55

  • The Immoral Proposition. Drawings by René Laubiès. Jargon, No. 8, Karlsruhe-Durlach, 1953.
  • The Kind of Act Of. Divers Press, Palma [July] 1953
  • The Gold Diggers. [March] Divers Press, Palma [March] 1954
  • A Snarling Garland of Sman Verses. Divers Press, Palma [Ymas] 1954
  • The Whip. Migrant Press. 1957
  • Robert Creeley Reads. Turret Books, Calder & Boyars, printed by Villiers Publications Ltd., London 1967. with 45rpm phono disc.
  • A Site. Goliard Press, London 1967.

Jim Dine[edit]

  • Welcome Home, Lovebirds. Trigram Press, London 1969. (collection of poems)

Robert Duncan (poet)[edit]

  • R. D., Collages by Jess [Collins]: Caesar's Gate: Poems 1949-1950. Divers Press, Palma 1955?
  • The First Decade. Fulcrum, London 1968
  • Derivations. Fulcrum, London 1969

Larry Eigner[edit]

  • From the Sustaining Air. Divers Press, Palma, [July] 1953
  • Fulcrum

Barbara Guest (1920)[edit]

  • If So, Tell Me. Realiy Street, 1999

Fanny Howe[edit]

Irish-American Poet from Boston. O'Clock was written in Ireland.

  • O'Clock. Reality Street. 1995.
  • Emergence. Reality Street. 2010.

Robert Lax (1915-2000)[edit]

  • In: The Lugano Review 1965
  • In: Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
  • books with Pendo, Zürich

Harry Mathews (* 1930)[edit]

Many books pubished in France, some written in french.
    • Tlooth. Paris Review Editions/Doubleday, Paris/Garden City, New York 1966
    • The Ring: Poems 1956-1969. Juillard Editions, Leeds, U.K., 1970
    • La Savoir des rois. 1976 (poetry)
    • Trial impressions. 1977 (poetry)
    • La Cantatrice sauve 1981. (fiction)
    • Plaisirs singuliers. 1983 (fiction) (engl. 1999?)
    • La Verger. 1986 (memoir: Georges Perec) (engl. 1988)
    • Ecrits francais 1990
    • Giandomenico Tiepolo. Flohic, Paris 1999
    • Alphabet Gourmand (text in english?). Seuil Jeunesse 1998
    • Sainte Catherine. Editions P.O.L. 2000

Lorinne Niedecker[edit]

  • North Central. Fulcrum Press, London 1968
  • My Life By Water: Collected Poems. Fulcrum Press, London 1970

Charles Olson[edit]

  • Mayan Letters. Divers Press, Palma 1953 [January 1954].
  • The Maximus Poems/ 11-20. Calligraphy by Jonathan Williams. Jargon, No. 7, Stuttgart 1956
  • In Cold Hell, In Thicket. <Divers Press, Palma?> [=Origin, No. 8, Winter 1958]
  • West. Goliard Press, London 1966
  • Maximus Poems. IV, V, VI. Cape Goliard Press, London 1968
  • Letters for 'Origin', 1950-1956. Albert Glover, editor. Cape Goliard Press, London 1968
  • Archaeologist of Morning. Cape Goliard Press, London 1970

George Oppen[edit]

  • Collected Poems by George Oppen. Fulcrum Press, London 1972

Kenneth Patchen[edit]

  • Fables & Other Little Tales. Jargon, No. 6, Karlsruhe, 1953

Stuart Z. Perkoff[edit]

Jerome Rothenberg[edit]

  • Fulcrum Press

Gary Snyder[edit]

  • Fulcrum Press

Emmett Williams (1925-2007)[edit]

  • First writing published in Vail's: Points

Jonathan Williams[edit]

Published a few of his Jargon- books/ pamphlets (avantgarde-texts) in Germany.

  • Jonathan Williams: Four Stoppages/A Configuration. Drawings by Charles Oscar. Jargon, No. 5, Stuttgart 1953
  • Lucidities. Turret Books, London 1969
  • Mahler. Cape Goliard Press, London 1969
  • The Loco Logodaedalist in Situ. Cape Goliard, London 1972/Grossman Publishers, 1972

Douglas Woolf[edit]

  • The Hypocritic Days. Divers Press, Palma, [January] 1955

Louis Zukofsky[edit]

  • In: transition (Paris until March 1928; then Colombay-les-deux-Eglises, France)
  • In: The Criterion, April, 1929; a part of his essay on Pound (The Cantos of E P) in April, 1931
  • Some Time. A song setting in the cover by Celia Zukofsky, [?] Jargon, No. 15, Karlsruhe 1956.
  • A 1-12. Origin Press, 1959
  • It Was. Origin Press, 1961.
  • 16 Once Published. Wild Hawthorn Press, Edinburgh (U.K.), 1962. The press was founded by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Jesse McGuffie, in 1961.
  • A-13. In: The Review, (U.K.), # 10, 1964. Part of a Black Mountain feature edited by Charles Tomlinson.
  • Louis Zukofsky: IYYOB. Printed, designed, by Barry Hall and Tom Raworth for Goliard Press, London 1965
  • A 1-12. Paris Review Editions, Paris 1966
  • A-14. Turret Books, London 1967. Turret ran from 1965-1975. Directors: Edward Lucie-Smith, Bernard Stone, George Rapp.
  • Cattulus Fragmenta. Turret Books, London 1968 (???)
  • Louis, Celia Zukofsky: Catullus "Fragmenta". Translation. Music by Paul Zukovsky. Trigram Press, Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, no. 5, London 1969.
  • Louis, Celia Zukofsky: Catullus. Cape Goliard Press, London 1969.
  • A 13-21. Paris Review Editions, Paris 1969.
  • Louis Zukofsky: A 22 & 23. Trigram Press, London 1977

Also the Objectivists' publisher To, Publishers.

Penguin Modern Poets[edit]

  • 4: David Wevill. 1963
  • 5: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg.
  • 9: Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams
  • 12: Charles Bukowski, Philip Lamantia, Harold Norse
  • 19: John Ashbery. 1971
  • 24: Kenward Elmslie, Kennth Koch, James Schuyler

Sylvia Plath[edit]

  • Alvarez (ed.): The New Poetry. 1966 edition. Three prev. unpublished poems

David Wevill (* 1935, Japan)[edit]

Candian poet. Since 1994 has also American citizenship.

  • In: Alvarez (ed.): The New Poetry. Penguin 1962.
  • A Group Anthology. Oxford UP

In Greece (1945 until now)[edit]

Lit.: Don Schofield (editor): Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece. Truman State University Press, 2004. This book presents forty poets.

      • Alan Ansen (see: Beat)

Christopher Bakken[edit]

  • < After Greece. Truman State Press, 2001 >

Donald Brees[edit]

Jeffrey Carson[edit]

Born in New York. In Greece, with his photographer wife, since 1970 (on Paros island). U.S. and Greek citizen.

  • 1976-1996 Poems. University of Salzburg, Salzburg (Austria). 1997 >

Rachel Blau DuPlessis[edit]

Lonnie Hill? Dupont (DuPont?)=[edit]

Haiku?

  • Moira Egan

She lives in Rome. (see last section here).

Linda Elkin[edit]

Rina Ferrarelli[edit]

Edward Field[edit]

In Greece for six months in 1949. Some poetry from this time in his first book:

  • Stand Up, friend, With Me. 1963.

Charles Fishman[edit]

Alice Friman[edit]

Jack Gilbert[edit]

Peter Green[edit]

Linda Gregg[edit]

Rachel Hadas[edit]

Charles Hartman/Charles O. Hartman[edit]

Adrainne Kalfopoulu[edit]

      • Robert Lax

P. H. Liotta Laurel Mantzaris Dave Mason Bill Mayer Thomas McGrath James Merrill Rebecca Newth Alicia Suskin Ostriker Philip Ramp William Pitt Root Becky Sakellariou

Nicholas Samaras[edit]

Mark Sargent Don Schofield Eleni Sikelianos

A. E. Stallings[edit]

Joseph Strout[edit]

Barry Tagrin Diane Thiel

Michael Walters[edit]

Gail White[edit]

1950s Black Mountain, Beat, 1960s Underground[edit]

Publishers: Jargon (in Germany for a time); Robert & Ann Creeley's Divers Press, published the first four issues of the Black Mountain Review. Asa and Penelope (Pip) Benveniste's and Paul Vaughan's Trigram Press, London (from 1965); Carl Weissner, Udo Breger, Maro Verlag, Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam, Ins& Outs, Amsterdam, Ira Cohen (Kathmandu)

Alan Ansen (d. November 12, 2006)[edit]

Lit.: obituary by John Zervos in the Athens News. Ansen was a secretary to W.H.Auden for some time, Poet and playwright. He lived in Tangiers and in Greece.

  • < The Old Religion. Tibor de Nagy. NYC 1959.>
  • < Contact Highs: Selected Poems. >

Mary Beach (* 1919, Hartford, Connecticut; d. 2006, Norwich, NY)[edit]

  • In: Carl Weissner (ed.): Cut Up. Der sezierte Bildschirm der Worte. Melzer, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Mary Beach: Electric Banana. Melzer, Darmstadt 1970.
  • Mary Beach, Claude Pelieu: Blue Bangh. Expanded Media Editions [Udo Breger], Göttingen (Germany) 1973. 33 p.

Ted Berrigan[edit]

  • Fragment
  • In the Early Morning Rain. Cape Goliard Press, London 1970

Hart Le Roi Bibbs/ (LeRoi?), later: Leroy (* 1930, Kansas City)[edit]

Friend: Al Jones

  • < Hart Le Roi Bibbs: Diet Book for Junkies. Published in supplement to Umbra's Blackworks, Summer, 1970. [Self published, 1960?] > tranlated as: Camétude, Livre de recettes. Marie [!] Beach (translator), Claude Pelieu (adapted by [adapté par]; preface). C. Bourgois 1969. 94 p. .
  • < Hart Le Roi Bibbs: Poly Rhythms to Freedom. Self published, New York 1964. (pamphlet)>
  • Hart Leroy Bibbs: Hey Now Hey. Editions CEF, Nice 1972. 45 pp. (poetry)
  • Hart Leroy Bibbs: Le Newk et Le Bean. IACP, Paris 1983. 24 pp. (fable; 8 pages photography)
  • Jazz poetry record with Sonny Murray.
  • < Hart Leroy Bibbs: Paris Jazz Seen D'Og House, New York 1980. 40 pp. (photobook with his texts)>
  • Ted Joans (poems, p. 7-56), Hart Leroy Bibbs (poems, photographs, excerpts from plays): Double Trouble: Poems. Revue Noire, Editions Bleu Outremer, Paris 1992. 119 pp.

Granby Blackwood (a pseudonym?)[edit]

  • Un Sang mal mêlé Editions Denoel, Paris 1966. Translated by Jacqueline Bernard

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)[edit]

  • Black Sun (broadsheet)
  • In: Vagabond
  • In: Klactoveedsedsteen (Carl Weissner)

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)[edit]

Tangiers, Marocco. Paris.

  • Naked Lunch. Olympia Press, Paris 1959
  • W. S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso, Sinclair Beiles: Minutes to Go. Two Cities Editions, Paris 1960.
  • The Soft Machine, Olympia, Paris 1961
  • The Ticket That Exploded. Olympia, Paris 1962
  • Texts in Jeff Nuttall's My Own Mag, from 1964; in: Arcade, # 1, 1964. Essay in the TLS, 1964; Ambit, 1964; Art & Literature, 1964; The Paris Review, 1965.
  • W. S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin: Oeuvre croisée. Flammarion, Paris 1976.
    • = The Third Mind. Viking, New Nork 1978; Calder, London 1979; Seaver Books, New York 1982.

Alfred Chester (1928-1971)[edit]

Paris in 1951. To Morocco in 1963 (-1965)

  • Silence in Heaven (essay). In: Botteghe Oscure it:Marguerite Caetani, Rome 1952. [1948-1960; twice a year]
  • Dance for Dead Lovers. In: Merlin.
  • Here Be Dragons 1955. [Robert Silvers'] Editions Finisterre, Paris
  • Jamie Is My Heart's Desire. Editions du Seuil, Paris; Andre Deutsch Ltd., London. 1956. In Germany, then in the USA.
  • as Malcolm Nesbit: Chariot of Flesh. Olympia Press
  • Behold Coliath Random House, 1964
  • The Exquisite Corpse 1967
  • Head of a Sad Angel 1953-1966. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa 1990

Ira Cohen (*1935)[edit]

  • Ira Cohen (editor): GNAOUA. Tangiers 1964. Paul Bowles, W.S.B., Alfred Chester, Ira Cohen, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Irving Rosenthal, Jack Smith.
  • Conversation with Paul Bowles. Minbad Sinbad. Didier Devillez Editeur (Belgium) 1964
  • Panama Rose (i.e. Ira Cohen): The Hashish Cookbook. 1966.
  • from the divan of petra vogt: poems & photographs. Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam 1976
  • Kathmandu portfolio: twelve photographs. Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam 1978
  • Bardo Matrix Press, Kathmandu: Gregory Corso, Charles Henri Ford, Angus MacLise, Paul Bowles,
  • Seven Marvels. Bardo Matrix, Starstream Editions 1975
  • The Stauffenberg Cycle Heerlen, 1981
  • On Feet of Gold. London 1986
  • Stadtlichter, Berlin

Leonard Cohen (* b. 1934)[edit]

Montreal.

Gregory Corso (1930-2001)[edit]

  • The American Express, Olympia Press, Paris 1961
  • Minutes to Go (with Burroughs, Beiles, Gysin) Paris
  • The Minicab War (with Anselm Hollo and Tom Raworth). Matrix Press [Tom Raworth) 1961

Bruno Denattio[edit]

  • e.m.e.

Ed Dorn (1929-1999)[edit]

  • From Glouchester Out. Matrix Press, London 1964
  • Idaho Out. Fulcrum, London 1965
  • Geography. Fulcrum, London 1965
  • The North Atlantic Turbine. Fulcrum, London 1967
  • Gunslinger I & II. Fulcrum, London 1970

Dan Georgakas[edit]

Anarchist, Historian (Detroit's revolutionary car workers, film). Friends with Carl Weissner in Heidelberg. His "Grey Manifesto was published by Weissner, PANic Press, Heidelberg. 1966? G. also wrote poetry.

Allen Ginsberg[edit]

  • T.V. Baby Poems. Cape Goliard Press, London 1967
  • Wales. A Visitation. Cape Goliard Press, London 1968.
  • Ankor Wat. Fulcrum Press, London 1968. Photos by Alexandra Lawrence.

Hammond Guthrie[edit]

Amsterdam etc. . Now lives in Portland, Oregon. Published a memoir.

  • In: AQ, No. 14, 1973 and Soft Need, No. 8? (Udo Breger, Göttingen)
  • Belfast Insert. Expanded Media Editions, Göttingen 1973

Brion Gysin (1916-1986)[edit]

Born Canadian; since c. 1940 US citizen. Tangiers and Paris.

  • Beiles, Burroughs, Corso, Gysin: Minutes to Go. Paris 1960
  • Dreammachine. In: Olympia Magazine, No. 2, Feb. 1962.
  • In: RhinoZeros, Nos. 9, 1964; 19, 1965
  • In: Carl Weissner (ed.): Cut Up. Darmstadt
  • In: Udo Breger (ed.): Soft Need; Nos. 8, 1973; 9, 1976;
  • In: Udo Breger (ed.): Soft Need, No. 17, 1977. Brion Gysin special.

James Haynes[edit]

International Times, Suck (Amsterdam), now in Paris: Handshake Press.

Piero Heliczer (June 20, 1937, Rome - July 22, 1993, Préaux-du-Perche)[edit]

  • The Soap Opera. Trigram Press, London 1967. (collection of poems)

Jan Herman[edit]

  • Jan Herman, Jürgen Ploog, Carl Weissner: Cut up or Shut Up. Editions Agentzia (Jochen Gerz), Paris 1972.

Anselm Hollo[edit]

  • Maya. Cape Goliard, London

Angus MacLise[edit]

  • Dead Language Press
  • Subliminal Report. Bardo Matrix, Starstream Editions, Kathmandu 1975

David Meltzer (poet)[edit]

  • Yesod. Trigram Press, London 1969.

Harold Norse (1916-2009)[edit]

  • Sniffing Keyholes. In: Ira Cohen (ed.): Gnaoua, No. 1, Tangiers 1964
    • Dutch translation: Sleutelgaten snuffen in: Gerard Belart (ed.): Harold Norse, Ed Sanders, Carl Weissner: Sleutelgaten snuffen, De harige duivel, Anemiese cinema. Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam 1971.
  • In: Carl Weissner (ed.): Cut Up. Melzer, Darmstadt 1969.
  • Beat Hotel. Maro, Augsburg 1975. Translated by Carl Weissner (german translation only)

Yoko Ono[edit]

Trigram Press

Claude Pelieu (* 1934 Beauchamp, Val D'Oise; December 20, 2003, Norwich, NY)[edit]

Since 1975 married to Mary Beach. Many publications in France, some in Germany.

  • Amphetamin Cowboy. Expanded Media Editions [Udo Breger], Bonn 1976

Carlene Hatcher Polite (August 28, 1932, Detroit - December 7, 2009, Cheektowaga, N.Y.)[edit]

Parents John and Lillian Cook Hatcher were United Auto Workers officials. Dancer. In Paris from 1964. University of Buffalo, Creative Writing (1971-2000). Husband (2003): James Patrick.

  • Les Flagellants. 1966. < English translation in 1967. >
  • < Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play. 1957 >

Gary Snyder (* 1930)[edit]

  • A Range of Poems. Fulcrum, London 1966. Includes translations of Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
  • The Back Country. Fulcrum, London 1967.

Kenneth Tindall (* 1937, Los Angeles)[edit]

  • The Arboretum. [writen 1957-60]
  • Vindharpen. Hans Reitzels Forlag, Kopenhaven? 1967. translated by Finn Holten Hansen. (= Great Heads. Grove New York 1969)

Science-Fiction, Horror. London[edit]

Horror
  • David Case (* 1937, in upstate New York)

To London in the early 1960s. Spain, Greece

Science Fiction. Michael Moorcock's New Worlds (magazine)
James Sallis
  • James Sallis (editor): The War Book. Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1969. Paperback: Panther 1971
Michael Butterworth's magazines

Michael Butterworth, David Britton: Savoy Books (1976-)

William Huxford (Bill) Butler (1934-1977)

Bookseller, publisher. He was ruined by a process and went to Wales. Canadian poet, published by Turrel and in s.f.-anthologies

  • A Cheyenne Legend. Turret Books. 1972. Printed for T. B. by Richard Moseley at Graphic Workshop, Righton.

Paris Review Editions 1967-1973[edit]

Since 1970[edit]

Helen Barolini[edit]

Italian-American. In Italy first in 1948 (Rome). Wrote Letters from Abroad for the Syracuse Herald-Journal.

  • Umbertina. Feminist Press, New York, 1979 (novel)
  • More Italian Hours. Bordighera, Boca Raton, FL, 2001
  • Rome Burning. Birch Brook Press, Delhi, NY, 2004

Melba Joyce Boyd (* 1950, Detroit)[edit]

Distinguished Professor (since 2005), Chairperson, Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. Guest-lecturer Bremen University, Germany 1983-84.

  • Cat Eyes and Dead Wood. Fallen Angel Press, Detroit, 1978.
  • Song for Maya. Broadside Press/ Detroit River Press, 1983. José Garza (illustrator).
  • Thirteen Frozen Flamingoes. Die Certel Press, Universität Bremen, Bremen, 1984. 45 p. .
  • Lied für Maya/ Song for Maya. O.B.E.M.A., WURF Verlag Press, 1989
  • The Inventory of Black Roses. Past Tents Press, Detroit [Ferndale, Mi.], 1989
  • Letters to Ché. Ridgeway Press, Detroit, 1996.
  • The Province of Literary Cats. Past Tents Press, 2002. 71 p. .
  • Blues Music Sky of Mourning: The German Poems. Past Tense Press, 2006.

John Brandi[edit]

Nepal. Poet (haiku)

Harold Brodkey[edit]

  • Profane Friendship.Privately printed in Italy (1992). The American publication is enlarged (1994).

Adrian Brooks (author)/Craig Welsh Makler (* 1947, Philadelphia)[edit]

Gay Poet. 1972 India, Nepal. In Europe from 1985-1995. http://adrianbrooksblog.blogspot.com/

  • Limbo Palace: Poems and Drawings. Selfsame Press, Kathmandu, 1976.
  • The Glass Arcade. 1980 (novel).
  • Leni Riefenstahl. 1983 (drama).
  • Roulette. Suspect Thoughts Press, San Francisco, 2007.
  • Flights of Angels. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008 (non-fiction).
  • Keeper of Souls. Publish America, 2008
  • Black and White and Red All Over. Suspect Thoughts, San Francisco, 2009
  • forthcoming: Dragon Hill; Angel of Light; The Sea Horse.
  • forthcoming: The Wild God
  • In the Land of Opposite Time
  • Black Cargo

Bill Bryson/William Bryson (* Decembrer 8, 1951, Des Moines, Iowa)[edit]

In England (Virginia Water, Surrey) in 1973-74. In Bournemouth and London from 1978[?] to 1995. In Norfolk from 2003.

  • The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America. Secker, London 1989.
  • and many more books.

Irene Dische[edit]

Lives in Berlin and in the USA since 1977?/the early 1980s. Her 2009 novel was first published in German translation by Reinhard Kaiser.

  • Clarissas empfindsame Reise. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2009.

Michael Egan (1939, Baltimore - 1992)[edit]

Irish-american Poet from Baltimore. Father of poet Moira Egan. Founder and the first editor of the publishing house New Poets Series, Inc./Chestnut Hills Press for Baltimore and Maryland poets. (NPS later: BrickHouse Books, Inc.)

  • The Oldest Gesture. M. Egan 1969. [New Poets Series?]
  • We Came Out Again to See the Stars. Salmon Poetry [since 1981], Salmon Publishing, Galway City 1987. Since 1995 at County Clare.
  • Leviathan. In: Salmon Anthology, 2007.

Moira Egan (* 1962, Baltimore)[edit]

Moira Egan's Website is http://moiraegan.com/ . James Merrill choose her MFA thesis for a prize. She taught in Greece and now lives in Rome. She is featured in the anthology of contemporary American poetry on Greece.

  • La Seta della Cravatta./ The Silk of the Tie. Brescia, 2009
  • < CLeave. Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2004. National Book Award. >
  • < Bar Napkin Sonnets. 2008? >

Ruth Fainlight (May 2, 1931, NYC)[edit]

Poet. In England since c.1946. France, Spain. Published first books in 1966. She lives in London.

Jane Falk[edit]

Probably the specialist in Ph. Whalen?

  • CKROWWW. bardo Matrix, Kathmandu 1977. Translations by Chaitanya Upadhya.
  • The Witch Speaks [?].

Iris M. Gaynor[edit]

  • Exits. Kathmandu 1977. 14 p.

Jim Goar[edit]

Edits the online magazine past simple.

  • Seoul Bus Poems

Jim Goodman[edit]

  • The Long March. Kathmandu
  • Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi (India)/ Pilgrims Book House, Kathmandu
  1. Pilgrims Publishing authors include: Linda LeBlanc: Beyond the Summit

Marilyn Hacker (* 1942)[edit]

1970, London (published in Ambit, London Magazine); lives in New York and Paris.

James Haynes/Jim Haynes[edit]

Publisher: Handshake Press in Paris. Was with IT, London, Suck, Amsterdam etc.

Nancy Huston (* 1953).[edit]

Canadian. In France since 1973 (studied in Paris with Roland Barthes).

  • Lignes de Faille (Fault Lines)

Ted Joans[edit]

German editions
  • Vergriffen. BlitzliebePoems. Loose-Bläter-Presse, Kassel 1979
  • The Aardvark Watcher/Der Erdferkel Beobachter. LCB-Editionen, Nr. 62, Berlin 1980
  • Mehr Blitzliebe Poems. Michael Kellner, Hamburg 1982

Andrea Lee (* 1953)[edit]

Afro-American. Married an Italian, lives in Turin.

fr:Bruce Lowery (1931-1988)[edit]

Lived and published in France.

Anne McCaffrey (*1926)[edit]

Science Fiction. Lives in Ireland since around 1970.

Ethel Portnoy (March 8, 1927, Philadelphia-May 25, 2004, The Hague)[edit]

Raised in the Bronx, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants, married Dutch writer Rudy Kousbroek in 1951. Ethel Portnoy wrote in English, but considered herself to be a Dutch writer.

  • Some 27 books with Dutch publishers from 1971 to 2004.

Sarah Riggs (* 1971, New York City)[edit]

Writer, translator, visual artist. In Paris since 2001. Member of Double Change.

  • < Waterwork. Chax Press, Tucson, Az. 2007. >
  • 28 télégrammes and 60 textos. Editions de l'Attente, translated by Francoise Valry, 2006-9. [and 43 Post-Its?]
  • Chain of Miniscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling. Reality Street Editions, 2007
  • < Word Sightings. Routledge, 2002. >
  • < 60 Textos. Ugly Duckling Press, 2010. >

Gail Scott[edit]

French-Canadian. Paris.

  • < Spare Parts. 1981 >
  • < Heroine.1987 > German edition: Meine fragwürdige Heldin. 1990.
  • < Spare Parts: Plus Two. 2002 >
  • < My Paris. [1999]. Dalkey Archive 2003 >

Lorenzo Thomas (poet) (August 31, 1944, Republic of Panama; d. July 4, 2005)[edit]

  • There Are Witnesses/Es gibt Zeugen. O.B.E.M.A., No. 14, Osnabrück (Germany) 1996. Some original poems (english and german).

Roberto Valenza/ Roberto Francisco Valenza[edit]

  • Ira Cohen, Dara Young, R. V.: Spirit Catcher!. 1976
  • The Clearing Stage. bardo Matrix [also?: bardo Matrix Special Edition], Kathamandu 1976
  • Lost Contact. bardo Matrix, Kathmandu, 1977.
  • In: W'ORC's Vol. 1, No. 1, December 1986. Ralph La Charity (editor). Germany [?]
  • < Shi Rab Dorje, R. V.: Poems for the Glancing Eye Nine Muses Books, Seattle 1993. Winston 1996?
  • < Under the Precious Umbrella. Nine Muses Publishing, Winston? 2001. Kathmandu Poems. >

Bibliography[edit]

  • Hugh D. Ford: Published in Paris. 1975
  • Ken Lane Rood: American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. 1980