Description

University of Missouri [Published Date: 2018]. Hardcover, 436 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removeable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. No remainder marks. Some black and white illustrations. "We Met in Paris" challenges previous depictions of Grace Frick and the couple she formed with the first French Academicienne. It is a scrupulously documented, intimate portrait of both women in which Frick emerges as a woman of substance in her own right. In addition to ten years of research, dozens of interviews with people who were close to Frick and Yourcenar, and an immense volume of published and unpublished correspondence, Howard's book is enriched by personal conversations with the author about her and Frick's life. It was long-listed for the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.