The doctor of the Paris slums who wrote the century's blackest, funniest novel — and then its most unforgivable pamphlets.
4 storytellers, each with a right first book.
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The iceberg stylist of the Lost Generation — wounded at eighteen, remade in Paris, imitated ever since.
The Brooklyn dropout who arrived in Paris broke at thirty-eight and wrote the exuberant, banned books that ended American censorship.
Modernism's impresario — editor of Eliot, publisher of Joyce, Hemingway's line-cutter, and the era's most brilliant, most compromised poet.