For centuries Paris has been the home of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights in Western literature, though many were not born there. We all know Parisian authors such as Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Victor Hugo and Zola and Proust. But Paris also was home to major expatriate writers from around the world, including Henry James, Ivan Turgenev, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Leopold Senghor, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Milan Kundera.

So why Paris? Especially in the late 19th and early 20th century, many writers were attracted to the city because of its university, because it was the center French publishing and journalism, and because it was home to major literary and artistic salons. Paris was, consequently, a vibrant community of writers, poets, and artists. For Americans after World War I, Paris also held a special connection as a bridge to the rest of Europe.

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