Hemingway’s memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal,warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - literary ’stars’ like James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.

Hemingway’s memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal,warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - literary ’stars’ like James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.

Preface

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A Good Cafe on the Place St-Michel

Miss stein Instructs

‘Une Generation Perdue’

Shakespeare and Company

People of the Seine

The False Spring

The End of an Avocation

Hunger Was Good Discipline

Ford Madox Ford and the Devil’s Disciple

Birth of a New School

With Pascin at the Deme

Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit

A Strange Enough Ending

The Man Who Was Marked for Death

Evan Shipman at the Lilas

An Agent of Evil

Scott Fitzgerald

Hawks Do Not Share

A Matter of Measurements

there Is Never Any End to Paris