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A list of American and Canadian expatriate writers, poets, songwriters. Mainly in Paris in the 1920s, but also in London and Russia, Italy, Germany, in Mexico, Ghana, on Cuba, in Japan, China and Nepal. With some travel-writers and journalists and very few non-fiction authors added.

1. Kathy Acker (1947-1997). Around 1986-1990 and a few years in the 1990s in London
2. Henry Adams (1838-1918)
3. Joel Agee (* 1940). James Agee and Alma Agee's son. From 1948-60 in the GDR, German Democratic Republic (Berlin).
4. Conrad Aiken (1889-1973). Fom 1921 to the Second World War in England (Rye, Sussex)
5. Thoams Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
6. Grant Allen. Canadian; novelist and teacher in Jamaica, lived in England
7. Samuel W. Allen (* 1913? or 1917). African-american poet. Book of poems first published in Heidelberg, GFR, German Federal Republic (1956).
8. Washington Allston (1779-1843). Artist and poet. Pupil of Benjamin West in London, in Paris and Italy. Again in London, after the death of his wife return to Cambridge, Mass.
9. Margaret Anderson (1886-1973). Publisher, author of memoirs, a pupil of Gurdjieff's in France.
10. Sherwood Anderson (1887-???). In 1921 in Paris and in England.
11. Alan Ansen (1922-2006). Poet. Has lived in Venice (Italy) and in Athens (Greece).
12. Alain Arias-Misson (* 1936). Visual poet, experimantal novelist. Born in Brussels (Belgium), educated in the USA. He married Spanish artist N. Arias. They live in Europe.
13. Nathan Asch (1902-1964). The son of famous Yiddish author Sholem Asch, lived in Paris for three years as a child (1912-) and again in 1923-6.
14. John Ashbery (* 1927). Poet, translator. From 1955 to 1965 in Europe (Paris)
15. Gertrude Franklin Atherton (1859-???)
16. Paul Auster. Novelist, translator, poet. A few years in Paris; c.1970-75(?)
17. Henry Martin Baird (1833-1906)
18. James Baldwin (1924-1987). Gay African-american novelist, dramatist, poet. Lived in France, Istanbul, Switzerland.
19. Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895)
20. + Josephine Baker (1906-1975). Famous African-american dancer and sex-symbol. In Paris since 1925. Some memoirs were published onder her name.
21. Ray Stannard Baker (1870-???), pen-name David Grayson
22. Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
23. Djuna Barnes
24. Nathalie Barney (1876-1972)
25. Robert Barr (1850-1912)
26. Gertrude Beasley (1996-1946). Her only, autobiographical, novel was published in Paris (1925).
27. + Julien Beck. Living Theatre; in Europe in the 1960s.
28. Bettina Bedwell (???-1947). Fashion illustrator and journalist for Vogue in Paris, crime novel (with Kay Boyle)
29. (Charles) Willim Beebe (1877-???)
30. + Edward Bellamy (1850-1898). Trained as a lawyer, but worked in journalism. He wrote several romantic novels and one bestseller, Looking Backward (1888), a socialist utopia set in the year 2000. Bellamy had visited Europe and was highly citical of its social system; the essay The Religion of Solidarity (written in 1874) was his first response.
31. Hart Leroy (also Le Roi) Bibbs (* 1930). African-american writer, jazz-poet, photographer.
32. Elizabeth Bishop (???). From 1951 for 16 years in Brazil.
33. John Peale Bishop (1892-1944)
34. James (Benjamin) Blish (1921-1975), science-fiction writer, also the literary critic William Atherling Jr. Blish wrote for the television series Star Trek between 1967 and 1975 and eleven and a half book-adaptions of the series. Living in Oxford (England) since 1968.
35. Jane Bowles (1917-1973)
36. Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
37. Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
38. + Richard Brautigan (1935-1984). In Japan for several months in 1976, and some time in following years; travel-poems, June 30th, June 30th (1978), stories, The Tokyo-Montana Express (1979). Brautigan met his second wife Akiko Nishizawa Yoshimura in 1976. They were married December 1, 1977, separated in 1979 and divorced in 1980.
39. + George Brecht. Fluxus musician and writer
40. Louis Bromfield (1896-1956)
41. Heywood Campell Broun (1888-???)
42. + Cecil Brown (* 1943). The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969). The setting of this novel is Denmark, where Brown was living in the 1960s.
43. Bob (Robert Carlton) Brown (1886-1959)
44. Louise Bryant, née Anna Louisa Mohan (1885-1936)
45. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
46. Artur Bullard
47. Eugene Bullard. African-american pilot in World War 1. Nightclubs in Paris after the war. All Blood Runs Red (memoir)
48. Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
49. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
50. William Huxford Butler
51. + John Cage. Componist, essayist. In Europe in the 1950s.
52. Morley Callaghan (1903-1990). Canadian. In Paris in 1929. He knew Hemingway from Toronto.
53. Dorothy Canfield (Fisher) (1879-1958)
54. Emanuel Carnevali (1897-c.1942). Italian imigrant poet, went back because of bad health. Published in Paris.
55. Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904)
56. + Eldridge Cleaver. Fled to Algiers when still minister of information of the Black Panther Party; conflict between him and Huey P. Newton led to a split in the party. Went to communist Korea, before his return to the USA. Interviews.
57. Robert M(yron) Coates (1897-1973)
58. + Ira Cohen. Poet, photographer. In Tangiers in the early 1960s, in Nepal in the 1970s.
59. Leonard Cohen (* 1934). On Hydra, Greece
60. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
61. Robert Coover (* 1932). Lived for some years in Kent.
62. Cid Corman
63. Malcolm Cowley
64. (Harold) Hart Crane
65. Stephen Crane
66. + Robert Creeley. Poet, edited the Black Mountain Review and published books when he and his first wife lived on Majorca.
67. Caresse Crosby. Poet, publisher in Paris and Washington, D. C.
68. Harry Crosby. Poet, publisher of the Black Sun Press with his wife Caresse Crosby in Paris.
69. Countee Leroy Cullen (1903-1946). African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance
70. E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). Poet, writer, painter.
71. George William Curtis (1824-1892). In Europe and Egypt and Syria in the 1840s
72. Frank Hamilton Cushing. Lived with the Zuni in New Mexico. One of the first modern ethnologists, who worked in the field and lived with Native Americans for some years.
73. Edward Dahlberg
74. (Horace) Chandler Davis. University teacher (mathematics), science-fiction author. Lived in Toronto with his wife, historian Natalie Z. Davis.
75. Natalie Zemon Davis. Historian. In Toronto (Canada).
76. Maya Deren. Filmmaker, book on Voudou in Haiti and on her film about it
77. + Dewey. Philosopher, educator. Went to Japanand China after the First World War.
78. + Jim Dine. Artist, also poet. In London c.1966/67
79. Thomas M. Disch. Science-fiction author, lived in London.
80. Irene Dische. Lives in the USA and in Germany.
81. James Patrick Donleavy
82. H. D./Hilda Doolitle
83. + Edward Dorn. Black Mountain poet, translator, essayist. At the University of Essex (U. K.) in the 1960s.
84. John Dos Passos
85. + Katherine S. Dreier (1877-1952). Writer on Early 20th-century modernist art, propagandist of abstract painting, with Marcel Duchamp a member of the Société Anonyme. In Paris, London, the Netherlands c.1907, in China 1921-2, first met Mondrian in Paris, 1925.
86. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Studied in Harvard, was in Berlin. Spent his last years in Ghana, where he joined the communist party and renounced his US-citizenship.
87. + Casimir Dukahz. Gay writer (pedophile); most of his books published in Amsterdam
88. Isadora Duncan. Famous dancer. Memoirs.
89. Raymond Duncan (1874-1966). Isadora Duncan's brother. Greece, Paris.
90. Ralph Cheever Dunning (1878-1930). Poet, addicted to opium. To Paris c.1905.
91. Leon Edel. 1931 in Paris (Ph. D.)
92. + Moira Egan (* 1962). Baltimore Irish-american poet, daughter of poet Michael Egan (1939-1992). She lives in Ireland
93. Louis M. Eilshemius (1864-1941). Painter and poet, Paris and New York
94. T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot (1888-1965)
95. Ralph Ellison. In Rome around 1957. Wrote a famous novel, The Invisible Man, and essays.
96. Ralph Waldo Emerson
97. James T. Farrell
98. William Faulkner. 1925 in Italy and in Paris.
99. Jessie Fauset. In London (?)
100. Edgar Fawcett
101. + Raymond Federman. Emigrated from France, published in French and in English.
102. Dolores S(tephens) Feria (1918-1940). Teacher, editor, political essayist and diarist, Philippines
103. Arthur Davidson Ficke (1883-???)
104. M. F. K. Fisher
105. J(ohn) S(cott) Fitzgerald
106. Janet Flanner
107. James Gould Fletcher
108. Charles Henri Ford
109. John (William) Fox, Jr. (1862-1919)
110. Harry A(verson) Franck (1881-1962)
111. Benjamin Franklin
112. Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
113. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)
114. Henry Blake Fuller (1857-???)
115. Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
116. + Samuel Fuller. Filmdirector, writer. Lived and published in Europe.
117. Mavis (Leslie) Gallant, née Young (* 1922). Canadian short-story writer, journalist and novelist in Paris.
118. William (Ford) Gibson (* 1948). The Cyberpunk science fiction author went to Canada in 1967. He went to Greece and Turkey with his Vancouverite girlfriend in 1970, they married and settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1972. He published his first story in 1977, his first novel, Neuromancer, in 1984.
119. Robin D. Gill (* 1951). In Japan
120. Allen Ginsberg
121. Jesse Glass (* 1954). In Japan
122. John Glassco (1909-1981). Canadian writer in Paris, 1928-31
123. + Jennifer Eaton Gökmen (* 1971). Journalist, co-editor with fellow expat journalist Anastasia M. Ashman (* 1964) of the anthology Tales from the Expat Harem (2006). She lives with her Turkish husband in Istanbul since 1994.
124. Mike Gold, born Itzol Isaac Granich (1893-1967).
125. Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
126. Alain Grandbois (1900-1975). From c.1924 (or earlier) to 1939 in Paris and Europe.
127. Anna Green (1891-c.1975). Sister of Julien Green
128. Julien Green (1900-1998), born Julian Green
129. Julian Gumperz (1898-1972). Political journalist, sociologist, communist
130. Brion Gysin (1916-1986)
131. Emily Hahn
132. Arthur Handy
133. Henry Harland
134. Frank Harris
135. Bret Harte
136. Marsden Hartley
137. Nathaniel Hawthorne
138. John Hay
139. Lafcadio Hearn
140. Ben Hecht
141. Ernest Hemingway
142. Jimi Hendrix (1943-1970), r & b and rock musician (Jimi Hendrix Experience). In London since 1966.
143. Josephine Frey Herbst
144. + William Herrick. Novelist. A former communist and soldier with the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, most of his novels are based on the experiences of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
145. John Herrman
146. + Patricia Highsmith. Crime novelist, female homosexual novelist. Lived in the U.K., France, Switzerland.
147. Chester Himes. Crime writer, novelist, short-stories. After the Second World War in Paris and in Spain.
148. Alice Tisdale Hobart
149. Jane Aiken Hodge (1917-2009). Eldest daughter of Conrad Aiken, Mrs. Alan Hodge. Renounced her US-citizenship in 1972 in protest against the mining of North-Vietnamese harbors.
150. William Dean Howells
151. + Langston Hughes. From February 1924 for six months in Europe (Rotterdam, Paris). USSR??
152. Zora Neale Hurston. Visited Haiti and Jamaica
153. Nancy Huston (* 1953). Kanadian novelist and essayist, in France since 1973.
154. Washington Irving
155. Henry James. Extensive travels in Europe, lived in the U.K., naturalized in 1915.
156. Thomas Jefferson. In France
157. Ted Joans. African-american jazz-poet. Lived in Africa, France, Denmark etc.
158. James Jones
159. Meatthew Josephson
160. + Steve Katz (* 1935). In Italy, 1959-62.
161. Edward King
162. + R. B. Kitaj. Artist, essays.
163. + Joseph Kosuth (* 1945). Conceptual artist and -essaysist. Editor (Art & Language) in London
164. + Jake Lamar (* 1961). African-american crime writer (thrillers). In Paris since 1993.
165. Edwin M. Lanham. In Paris in the 1920s, later crime writer
166. Robert Lax. Poet, Greece
167. Andrea Lee (* 1953). African-american journalist, novelist and short-story writer. B.A., M.A. from Harvard University, in Russia in 1978 (Russian Journal, 1981). She lives with her Italian husband in Torino.
168. + Gershon Legman. Folklorist, bibliographer, of sexual tales, essayist, non-fiction writer. Settled in France after difficulties with the U.S. postal services.
169. Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903). Folklorist (Gypsies, Tuscany witchcraft), German-American poet (humorist).
170. Norman Levine (1923-2005)
171. Sinclair Lewis
172. Ludwig Lewisohn (1882?-1955)
173. Jay Leyda (1910-1988). Film-historian, editor of American literature.
174. Jonathan Littell (* 1967)
175. Dorothy Lindsay
176. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
177. + James Lord (1922-2009). Gay writer on art and artist (Giacometti), memoirs, short-stories.
178. James Russell Lowell
179. Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976)
180. Robert McAlmon (1895-1956)
181. Janet McDonald (1954-2007). Lawyer in Paris. Wrote a memoir, Project Girl, and young adult fiction.
182. Claude McKay (1890-1948). From Jamaica. Lived in New York, London, Paris, Marseilles, North Africa. Visited the USSR and spoke at a congress of the Third International.
183. + Mary MacCarthy. Books about Florence and Venice.
184. Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982). Poet
185. Norman Macleod (* 1906)
186. + Angus MacLise. Underground musician, poet. Lived and died in Nepal (Kathmandu).
187. (John Joseph) Sherry Mangan (1904-1961)
188. + William Margolis (1944-2004). Writer, novelist, who lived and published both his books in Bordeaux, France.
189. Jeanette Marks (1875-?)
190. Harry Matthews (* 1930)
191. Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
192. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
193. Stuart Merrill (1861-1915). American symbolist poet, writing in French and living in France nearly all his life.
194. Henry Miller (1891-1980)
195. Nicole Mones. From 1977 eighteen years in China
196. + John G. Morris. Photojournalist and editor (Life, Magnum), writer (Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism, 1998). In Paris since 1983.
197. + Jim Morrison (1943-1971). Rock musician, member of the Doors. He was living in Paris when he died.
198. Willard Motley. African-american novelist from Chicago. In Mexico from 1951 (cpusa).
199. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
200. Peter Neagoe (1881-1960)
201. John Neal (1793-1876)
202. Harold Norse (1916-2009). Gay poet. Friend of Beat writers in Paris (Beat Hotel). Went back to the USA in 1969.
203. Eugene O'Neill. In Europe, 1928-31 (Loire Valley, France).
204. Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940)
205. Yoko Ono (* 1933)
206. George Oppen (1908-1984)
207. + Iris Origo (1902-1988). The irish-american has lived most of her life in Italy.
208. Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
209. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
210. Gordon Parks (1912-2006). The leading African-american fotographer of his time, on the staff of Life from 1948-1972. Also a film director, Shaft (1971). He wrote five autobiographical novels, poems and short-stories. Parks worked for several years in Europe (1950-1956?), in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. He was in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1961.
211. Elliot Harold Paul (1891-1958))
212. Elizabeth Robind Pennell (1855-1936). A niece of Charles Leland, about whom she wrote one of her biographies, married an artist, wrote for magazines and books on artists and art and collected books and art. They lived in Europe.
213. Ernst (Edler) von der Planitz (1857-1935). Lived and published in Germany.
214. C. Hatcher Polite (1932-2009). African-american dancer, author in Paris, teacher in Buffalo, NY (1971-2000).
215. Ernest Poole (1880-1950)
216. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
217. Ethel Portnoy (1927-2004). Lived in Paris and in Den Haag (from c.1970) with Dutch journalist and writer Rudy Kousbroek (later divorced). Published more than twenty books in the Netherlands only. Best known for her work on urban legends. Also wrote about costume.
218. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
219. Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989)
220. Samuel Putnam (1892-1950)
221. + Margaret Randall. Poet and editor, who published 31 issues of the important bilingual literary magazine El Corno Emplumado, or The Plumed Horn in Mexico (January, 1962- July, 1969) with her first husband, Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon. Randall went into hiding after the 1968 student-massacre in Mexico City and in 1969 fled to Cuba with her new partner, the poet and editor Robert Cohen. Later returned to the USA. El Corno Emplumado was read in New York.
222. + Man Ray. Photographer; edited pre-dadaist and Dada-magazines
223. John Reed (187?-1920)
224. (Major) John Richardson (1796-1852)
225. Donald Ritchie. Japan (* 1924)
226. Mordecai Richler (1931-2001). Canadian novelist, essayist. From Montreal, went to Paris in 1950-1 and has lived in London from 1954 to 1972.
227. Laura Riding (1901-1991)
228. Sarah Riggs (* 1971). In Paris
229. + Edouard Roditi (1910-1992). Poet, translator, editor of important magazines (like Der Monat). Born in Paris, he was a U.S.-citizen because of his father.
230. Ralph Roeder (1890-1969). Historian, in Mexico first in 1911, living there from 1942.
231. Harold J(ason) Salemson (1910-1988). Editor, translator from the French, filmcritic. Went to school in Paris, after 1940 in Hollywood
232. Eva Salzman (* 1960). Poet, in the U.K. since 1985.
233. George Santayana (1863-1952). Born in Madrid, professor at Harvard University. Left the USA in 1912 (died in Rome).
234. Jay Scott, pen name of Jeffrey Scott Beaven. Gay, journalist, draft dodger in 1969. He wrote about film for the Toronto Globe & Mail since 1977.
235. Hermann George Scheffauer (1878-1927)
236. Evelyn Scott, pen name of Elsie Dunn (1893-1963). In Brazil 1913-9.
237. William Buehler Seabrook (1884-1945). Soldier in World War One. Writer in Paris
238. Charles Sealsfield, born Karl Anton Postl (1793-1864). From Austria, he became an American citizen, but continued to live both in the USA and in Austria.
239. Richard Seaver. Merlin. Evergreen Review.
240. Alan Seeeger (1888-1916). Poet, the brother of the musicologist C. Seeger (and uncle of communist folk-singer Pete Seeger) was killed in France in the First World War, fighting for the French Foreign Legion.
241. George Seldes (1890-1995)
242. Ernest Thompson Seton. One of the many Canadian writers of his generation working in exile in the USA (New York City).
243. Irwin Shaw, born Gilbert Shamforoff (1913-1984). Wrote drama and novels (The Young Lions 1948), a political exile since 1951, because of the HUAC. Shaw has lived in Paris and in Switzerland.
244. Archie Shepp (* 1937). African-american jazz musician, also a writer (drama, poetry).
245. Paul Shinkman. A journalist in Paris (Latin Quarter Notes-column for the Chicago Tribune International Edition) and in London, 1920s.
246. Evan Biddle Shipman (1904-1957). Journalist. Memoirs: Free for All (1935).
247. William L. Shirer (* 1904). Journalist, writer. In Paris since 1925.
248. John Sinclair. Poet, editor of Work, Guerilla and other magazines and books in Detroit. He managed the MC 5 rock-band and was a co-founder of the White Panther Party. He now lives in the Netherlands (since 2003).
249. John Thomas Sladek (1937-2000). Science-fiction writer. Lived in London from the 1960s to 1986.
250. Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)
251. William Gardner Smith (1927-1974). African-american novelist, jounalist. Expatriate since 1951
252. Gary Snyder (* 1930)
253. Solita Solano (1888-1975). Pseudonym of Sarah Wilkinson. Journalist. Had lived in the Philippines, in Japan and China. To Europe with Janet Flanner in 1921, they left in 1940. She again lived in France (on her own) after World War Two.
254. George (Paul) Solomos (* 1925)
255. Terry Southern. In Paris in the 1950s.
256. Herbert Southworth (1908-1999). Collector of books about the Spanisch Civil War, historian of the period. Journalist in Northafrica in the 1950s, to France c.1960. In California since the 1970s.
257. Harold Speakman (1888-1928)
258. Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888). An early archaeologist, a diplomat and writer, who wrote about the ancient Mississippi-culture, Nicaragua, British-Honduras and Peru.
259. Harold Stearns. Author, editor of books critical of American civilization in Greenwich Village, before he went to Paris (1921-1932). Worked for the Chicago Tribune International Edition.
260. Bernard Steele (1902-1979). From 1930- one of the two publishers of Denoel et Steele in Paris, he left in 1936 because of Celine's pamphlet about his journey to the USSR.
261. Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936). Journalist, Sozialist, then communist. Famous visit to the USSSR, lived in Europe, married to Ella Winter, after the First World War.
262. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
263. + Bruce Sterling (* 1954). Cyberpunk science-fiction writer and essayist/blogger (Wired). In 2005 he married Serbian author Jasmina Tesanovich. He has lived in Belgrade and since 2007 lives in Turin (Italy). He spent some years in India as a child.
264. Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980)
265. + Stieglitz (photographer); edited important modernist magazines; kept contact to German photographers
266. Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970)
267. William Syron (1925-2006). Novelist.
268. Jules-Paul Tardivel (1851-1905). Journalist, writer. Born in Kentucky, educated in Quebec, Canada. French-canadian and catholic propagandist.
269. Booth Tarkington (1896-1979)
270. (John Orle) Allen Tate (1899-1979)
271. Bayard Taylor (1825-1978)
272. Graeme Taylor (1905-1957). Canadian, a livelong friend of John Glassco's, a few publications in magazines.
273. Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). African-american and feminist civil rights activist.
274. Paul Theroux (* 1941)
275. James Thurber (1894-1961)
276. Lynne Tillman (* 1947)
277. Kenneth Tindall (* 1937). Beat-lifestyle in Paris around 1960, married a Danish girl and lives in Denmark.
278. Jean Toomer. Writer of the Harlem Renaissance. In Paris in 1924.
279. Mark Twain/Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910). Journey to Palestine 1867 (The Innocents Abroad.)
280. Parker Tyler (1904-1974)
281. Laurence Vail (1891-1968)
282. Melvin Van Peebles, born Melvin Peebles (* 1932). African-american dramatist and filmmaker, writer of fiction and non-fiction. P. has lived in Mexico, in the Netherlands and in France. Five books (a memoir, a collection of stories, crime-novels) were published in French in Paris in the 1960s.
283. Gore Vidal. Gay political novelist. Lived in Italy after World War Two.
284. Francis Vielé-Griffin, born Egbert Ludovicus Griffin. French-language symbolist poet from Virginia.
285. Austryn Wainhouse (* 1926). Translator, novelist, in Paris with Olympia Press and the literary magazine Merlin. Left Paris in 1955. Lives in the USA and in France.
286. Ernest Walsh (died, 1926)
287. + Lawrence Weiner. Conceptual-artist, -author. Lived in New York City and in Amsterdam
288. Glenway Wescott (1901-1987)
289. Nathanael West, born Nathan Weinstein (1903-1940). In Paris only in autumn, 1926.
290. Philip Whalen (1923-2002)
291. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
292. Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988)
293. Edmund White (* 1940). Gay writer of fiction and non-fiction. Famous for his short novels and his fictional memoirs. Wrote a biography of Jean Genet. White lived from 1983-90 in France
294. + Emmett Williams. Student of ethnology in Paris, journalist for the U.S. army in Germany, New York editor with the Fluxus publisher Something Else Press (Dick Higgins) in the 1960s. In Europe from 1949-66.
295. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867).
296. Ella Winter, or Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart (1898-2008). Jewish communist from London, married to Lincoln Steffens (died 1936). Her two books about the USSR were in part based on her travels (1933; 1945). Like her second husband, writer and Donald Ogden Stewart, cpusa-cadre in Hollywood.
297. Thomas Wolfe, In Paris 1925-6
298. + Milton Wolff (1915-2008). Soldier in the International Brigades (Abraham Lincoln) in the Spanish Civil War, the lifelong communist wrote three books about his life.
299. George Woodcock (1912-1995). Canadian poet, wrote a history of anarchism, from 1959 editor of Canadian Literature from the University of Vancouver (British Columbia). Had lived in London.
300. Richard Wight (1908-1960). African-american novelist and essayist. Lived in Paris since 1947, visited Indonesia and Ghana.
301. Frank Yerby (1916-1991). African-american novelist (bestsellers). Lived in Spain since 1955.