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Everyone the atlas can put in a room — the writers, and the painters and sculptors they collected, sat for, and argued with.
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The writers
The Lost Generation and the Paris moderns — who they were, where to start, and which book to read first.
Browse every author47 in the atlas
The artists
The painters and sculptors of the same rooms — collected at the salons, painted in the studios, argued with at the cafés.



The names you know
Start with the people who made the era famous.
- Ernest HemingwayStart with A Moveable Feast, his memoir of 1920s Paris.

- F. Scott FitzgeraldWrote The Great Gatsby in France in 1924.

- Pablo PicassoDeveloped Cubism from a Montmartre studio.

- Salvador DalíJoined the Paris Surrealists in 1929.

- Claude MonetImpressionism is named after his Impression, Sunrise.

- James JoyceUlysses was first published in Paris in 1922.

- Gertrude SteinHosted the salon at 27 rue de Fleurus.

- Marcel ProustWrote In Search of Lost Time in a cork-lined bedroom.

- Paul CézanneHis first solo show was at Vollard's Paris gallery in 1895.

- Paul GauguinLeft Paris for Tahiti in 1891.

- George OrwellTurned his dishwashing years into Down and Out in Paris and London.

- D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover got its first popular edition in Paris.

- T. S. EliotEzra Pound edited The Waste Land in Paris in 1922.

- Henry MillerTropic of Cancer was published in Paris in 1934.

- Anaïs NinThe first volume of her Diary opens in 1931 Paris.

- Miles DavisImprovised the score for Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows in Paris.

- Édith PiafDiscovered singing on a Pigalle street corner.

- Josephine BakerHeadlined the Folies Bergère in 1926.

- Erik SatieComposed the Gymnopédies in Montmartre.

- Martha GellhornWar correspondent from the Spanish Civil War to D-Day.

- Marcel DuchampInventor of the readymade.

- James BaldwinMoved to Paris in 1948 and set Giovanni's Room there.

Everyone, A to Z
Every face in the Atlas. Initials marked “portrait needed” show exactly where the illustration collection is still incomplete.
- Abel Gance

- Abraham Rattner

- Adolf Hitler

- Adrienne Monnier

- Agnès Varda

- Alain Locke

- Alain Resnais

- Albert C. Barnes

- Albert CamusPortrait needed
- Alex Haley

- Alfred Perlès

- Alfred Sisley

- Alice B. Toklas

- Aline Charigot

- Ambroise Vollard

- Amedeo Modigliani

- Anaïs Nin

- André Breton

- Anna Karina

- Antonin Artaud

- Audrey Hepburn

- Beatrice Wickens

- Beauford Delaney

- Berthe Morisot

- Bill Smith

- Blaise Cendrars

- Brassaï

- Brigitte Bardot

- Camille Lefèvre

- Camille Pissarro

- Catherine Deneuve

- Cayetano Ordóñez

- Cecil Beaton

- Chaïm Soutine

- Charles de Noailles

- Chris Marker

- Claude Chabrol

- Claude Debussy

- Claude Monet

- Colette

- Constantin Brâncuși

- Countee Cullen

- D. H. Lawrence

- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

- Dante AlighieriPortrait needed
- Djuna Barnes

- Domenica Walter

- Donald Ogden Stewart

- Edgar Degas

- Édith Piaf

- Édouard Manet

- Edward James

- Elijah Muhammad

- Élisabeth de Gramont

- Elizabeth Craig

- Éric Rohmer

- Erik Satie

- Ernest Hemingway

- Ezra Pound

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Federico García Lorca

- Fernand Léger

- Fernande Olivier

- Ford Madox Ford

- Francis Picabia

- François Mauriac

- François Truffaut

- Frédéric Bazille

- Gabrielle Renard

- Gala Dalí

- Gen Paul

- George Antheil

- George Katsimbalis

- George Orwell

- George Seferis

- George Whitman

- Georges Clemenceau

- Georges Franju

- Georges Méliès

- Georges Seurat

- Gertrude Stein

- Grégoire Michonze

- Guillaume Apollinaire

- Gustave Caillebotte

- Gustave Courbet

- Hadley Richardson

- Harold Loeb

- Harold Stearns

- Harry Belafonte

- Heinrich Miller

- Henri Barbusse

- Henri Langlois

- Henri Rousseau

- Henry Miller

- Igor Stravinsky

- Jack Hemingway

- Jack Kahane

- Jacques Demy

- Jacques Rivette

- James Baldwin

- James Joyce

- Janet Flanner

- Jean Cocteau

- Jean Kronski

- Jean Marais

- Jean Renoir

- Jean Seberg

- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

- Jean-Luc Godard

- Jean-Paul Belmondo

- Jean-Pierre Léaud

- Jeanne Moreau

- Joan Miró

- Joaquín Nin

- John Cassavetes

- Josephine Baker

- Juan Belmonte

- Julie Vellay

- June Miller

- Kiki de Montparnasse

- Lady Duff Twysden

- Langston Hughes

- Lawrence Durrell

- Leslie Caron

- Lorraine Hansberry

- Louis Aragon

- Louis Baruc

- Louis Feuillade

- Louis Malle

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline

- Lucette Destouches

- Lucie Delarue-Mardrus

- Lucien Happersberger

- Lucien Pissarro

- Luis Buñuel

- Malcolm X

- Man Ray

- Manuel Chaves Nogales

- Marcel Cerdan

- Marcel Duchamp

- Marcel Proust

- Marcelle Kahane

- Marie Laurencin

- Martha Gellhorn

- Martin Luther King Jr.

- Mary Cassatt

- Mary Welsh Hemingway

- Maurice Girodias

- Maurice Ravel

- Maxwell Perkins

- Maya Angelou

- Medgar Evers

- Michael Fraenkel

- Michel Monet

- Miles Davis

- Milton Hindus

- Mina Loy

- Musidora

- Nancy Cunard

- Natalie Clifford Barney

- Nikki Giovanni

- Nina Simone

- Oscar Wilde

- Pablo Picasso

- Pat Guthrie

- Paul Cézanne

- Paul Durand-Ruel

- Paul Éluard

- Paul Gauguin

- Paul Guillaume

- Paul Signac

- Pauline Pfeiffer

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

- Rachilde

- Radclyffe Hall

- Raoul Coutard

- Ray Charles

- Remy de Gourmont

- René Magritte

- Renée Jeanne Falconetti

- Renée Vivien

- Richard Avedon

- Richard Wright

- Robert de Montesquiou

- Robert Desnos

- Rolf de Maré

- Romain Gary

- Romaine Brooks

- Salvador Dalí

- Sherwood Anderson

- Sidney Poitier

- Sigmund Freud

- Simone de Beauvoir

- Sisley Huddleston

- Sol Stein

- Stéphane Mallarmé

- Sylvia Beach

- T. S. Eliot

- Thomas Wolfe

- Toni Morrison

- Walter Lowenfels

- Zelda Fitzgerald

- Zora Neale Hurston
