About the Author

JOHN BAXTER has lived in Paris for almost thirty years. He is the author of many critically acclaimed books about France, including Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light; The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France (winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award for Culinary Travel); The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris; Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914–1918; and We’ll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light. Baxter, who gives literary walking tours through Paris, is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and, most recently, Josef von Sternberg. Born in Australia, Baxter lives with his wife and daughter in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, in the building Sylvia Beach once called home.

For more information, visit www.johnbaxterparis.com.

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