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A series of chronological entries documenting Lawrence Durrell's life (1912-1990) and writing career, preceded by "Antecedents" (1851-1910), and followed by "Aftermath" (1991-2019), listing the main events connected with his reputation since his death. There is a 16-page "Index of Persons".

Brewster Chamberlin readily admits one of the great pieces of buona Fortuna in his life was the 14 months he spent with Lynn-Marie Smith in a small village in the South of France just northwest of the old walled city of Avignon. This sprightly memoir is the story of those deeply enriching and adventurous months in a landscape both enchanted and occasionally dangerous, filled with the wildly magical scenes Van Gogh, Lawrence Durrell and other p...

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If Bookshelves Groan If bookshelves groan It must be with pleasure - Imagine being weighed down By beauty and truth in print - Let us pray Buckled by Joyce and Prévert Testing the strength of your muscles - What delicious agony Strain my tendons, Petrarch With all your mental Laura lust. After all It is what one carries that counts. Paris, November 14, 1987 These Haiku-like poems and longer verses represent nighttime thoughts and inspira...

Unable to break into the tenured groves of academe, despite a solid and well-received doctoral dissertation, Chamberlin spent several decades of his life working as a historian, archivist, university teacher, lecturer, poet, essayist and writer of longer and shorter fictions while living in Manhattan, Germany, France, Italy, Washington DC and Greece. In 2001 he retired from an executive position at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washing...

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Few if any writers have made a mark as broad and deep as Ernest Hemingway, whose life and work—and even image—continue to permeate American culture more than a half-century after his death in 1961. And never has there been a chronology of the writer's life and times as comprehensive, detailed, and useful as The Hemingway Log.

THE TIME IN TAVEL is a book about the year the author and his fiancee lived in the south of France, Provence. It was 1982 and they were young and full of adventures. They loved Provence. the landscapes, the food and wine, and the people. The detailed descriptions make this a veritable travel book, written by someone who is a scholar and world traveler. It brings to mind the artists and expatriates of earlier times, of Paris and the impressioni...

This is a personal and unorthodox view of Paris from its early days to the present.