The Last Nude (40 page)

Many thanks to the Corporation of Yaddo, the University of Pittsburgh English Department, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in particular the Elizabeth Ireland Graves Columbus School for Girls Endowment, for their support of this book in its early stages.

Thanks also to Alain Blondel of Galerie Alain Blondel, Zina Fergani of Gaumont Pathé archives, Matthieu Goffard of the Paris Ritz, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Jill Anderson, Julie Crawford, Marilyn Copeland, David Henkin, Lynn Jeffress, Edward Mendelson, and Carol Ockman, for their generous assistance with the research for this book.

Thank you to Megan Lynch, Sarah Bowlin, Ali Cardia, and everyone at Riverhead Books; thank you to Jean Naggar, Jennifer Weltz, Tara Hart, and everyone at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency.

Thanks, too, to the many people who cheered me on in the writing of this book, and especially to those who worked with it in draft form, including Amanda Atwood, Emily Barton, Adam Biles, Alexander Chee, Deborah Cohen, Emma Donoghue, Jennifer Epstein, Denis Flannery, Geoff Gilbert, Aaron Hamburger, Sara M. Ingram, Tina Isaac, Cassandra Neyenesch, Lisa Pasold, Alison Smith, and Caroline Wampole.

Greatest thanks go to the artists and authors who inspired this novel, and to their biographers and cataloguers. To Katrin Burlin, a professor of mine from twenty years ago, who began a course on women artists with the cheerfully tendentious idea that whatever women make is art. To my grandmother, in memory. To my mother, in memory. And to Sharon Marcus, without whom the book you are holding would not exist.

FURTHER READING

For readers interested in learning more about the world of this novel and the people whose lives inspired it, I recommend the following memoirs and works of nonfiction:

 

Beach, Sylvia.
Shakespeare and Company
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1959.

Benstock, Shari.
Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900–1940.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986.

Blondel, Alain.
Tamara de Lempicka: Catalogue Raisonné 1921–1979
.

———, Ingried Brugger, and Tad Gronberg.
Tamara de Lempicka: Art Deco Icon.
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2004.

Claridge, Laura.
Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence.
London: Bloomsbury, 2000.

Fitch, Noel Riley.
Hemingway in Paris.
Wellingborough: Equation, 1989.

———,
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties.
New York: Norton, 1983.

Flanner, Janet.
Paris Was Yesterday: 1925–1939.
New York: Viking, 1972.

Garland, Madge.
Fashion.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.

Green, Nancy L.
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Hemingway, Ernest.
A Moveable Feast.
Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 1964.

Kert, Bernice.
The Hemingway Women.
New York: Norton, 1983.

de Lempicka-Foxhall, Kizette.
Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara de Lempicka.
New York: Abbeville, 1987.

McAlmon, Robert, and Kay Boyle.
Being Geniuses Together: 1920–1930.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.

———.
The Nightinghouls of Paris.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 2007.

Monnier, Adrienne.
The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976.

Reynolds, Michael.
Hemingway: The Paris Years.
Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1989.

———.
The Young Hemingway.
New York: B. Blackwell, 1986.

Ruffin, Raymond.
La Diablesse: La Véritable Histoire de Violette Morris.
Paris: Éditions Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet, 1989.

Souhami, Diana.
Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks.
New York: Saint Martin’s, 2004.

Stein, Gertrude.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1933.

Weiss, Andrea.
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank.
San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995.

Wiser, William.
The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties.
New York: Atheneum, 1983.

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