Whether cruising the film studios of the world to research for his prize-winning biographies of Woody Allen, Robert DeNiro and Stanley Kubrick, or browsing a French flea market for rare books to enrich his extraordinary collection, John Baxter remains a man gripped by the same intense curiosity which drove him to abandon rural Australia to live in half a dozen countries before coming to rest in France.
Since then, he has created a new reputation as a chronicler of Paris, both as experienced by him personally and by such vivid and sensational personalities as Josephine Baker, Scott Fitzgerald and Henry Miller who feature in his best-selling memoirs A POUND OF PAPER and WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS, the latter described by London’s SUNDAY TIMES as “towering above most other recent memoirs of life abroad.”
In conversation with Terrance Gelenter, Baxter can be relied on to fascinate and delight with tales of his extraordinary life and the people with whom it has brought him in contact.
When: October 22nd, 7PM-9PM.
Where: Hotel Bedford, 17 rue de l’Arcade, Paris 75008.
Metro: Madeleine.
Tickets: 25€, no-host bar.
Reservations: terrance@paris-expat.com or 06-7098-1368.
—Terrance Gelenter
