Writers in Paris

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Writers in Paris

Moliere (1658); Marquise de Sévigné (1665); Honoré de Balzac; Alexandre Dumas (1855); George Sand (1864); Victor Hugo (1876); Emile Zola (1902); Marcel Proust (1900); Ernest Hemingway (1923); Colette (1932)

For centuries Paris has been the home and frequently the subject matter of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights in French literature, including Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Victor Hugo and Zola and Proust. 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, E. du Perron, Milan Kundera and Henry Miller. Few of the writers of Paris were actually born in Paris; they were attracted to the city first because of its university, then because it was the center of the French publishing industry, home of the major French newspapers and journals, of its important literary salons, and the company of the other writers, poets, and artists.