"We Met in Paris" challenges previous depictions of Grace Frick and the couple she formed with the first French Académicienne. It is a scrupulously documented, intimate portrait of both women in which Frick emerges as a woman of substance in her own right. In addition to ten years of research, dozens of interviews with people who were close to Frick and Yourcenar, and an immense volume of published and unpublished correspondence, Howard's book is enriched by personal conversations with the author about her and Frick's life. It was long-listed for the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Editorial ReviewsReview“Contrary to what the title might lead us to expect, this biography does not begin with the meeting of the two women. For the first time, it presents the life of Grace Frick. . . .&nbsp;We Met in Paris&nbsp;fills a void, giving another dimension to Marguerite Yourcenar’s life and shedding new light on the literary laboratory.” --Béatrice Mousli,&nbsp;Bulletin de la SIEY “This first Frick biography will interest not only devotees of the two women but also anyone wishing to learn more about literary collaboration, 20th-century women’s education, Franco-American relations, and lesbianism (although this is not a militant text). Regrettably, the book’s title does little to evoke the seriousness, depth, and breadth of this fine book.” --A. M. Rea,&nbsp;Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries “An inherently impressive work of original and seminal scholarship.” --Internet Bookwatch “ ‘Major lesbian biographies’ is a short roster of books. Lesbian subjects have been largely erased from history. . . . Tackling erasure requires a special kind of courage and dedication on the part of the biographer, as I discovered in restoring the life of Romaine Brooks. Joan Howard joins this distinguished sisterhood with&nbsp;We Met in Paris.” --Cassandra Langer,&nbsp;Gay and Lesbian Review &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From the Inside Flap"We will henceforth be obliged to count this biography of Grace Frick in the forefront of biographies of Marguerite Yourcenar." --Bérengère Deprez, Editor at Presses universitaires de Louvain, author of&nbsp;Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA: From Prophecy to Protest "A very engaging and thought-provoking portrayal of Grace Frick, who she was as a person and how she worked with and for Marguerite Yourcenar to construct their life together and create the environment that allowed works like Memoirs of Hadrian to come into being." --Francesca Counihan, Maynooth University, author of&nbsp;L'Autorité dans l'œuvre romanesque de Marguerite Yourcenar "In this ground-breaking biography, Joan Howard presents Grace Frick as a remarkable person in her own right and as the treasured partner of the writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Howard's research has been exhaustive, her findings effectively challenge every earlier assessment of the couple's relationship, proving as well how essential Frick was to Yourcenar's professional and everyday life." --Sue Lonoff de Cuevas, author of&nbsp;Marguerite Yourcenar: Croquis et griffonnisFrom the Back Cover"In this remarkable and essential first biography of Grace Frick, Joan E. Howard paints the figure of a twentieth century woman eager to promote women's education and to defend civil rights; a woman passionate about literature who became the indefatigable translator of the works of her lover, the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Against the clichés spread by many of Yourcenar's biographers, Howard does justice to the relationship between the two women, to the life they chose to build together, and gives us a greater understanding of their entwined literary careers." --Béatrice Mousli, University of Southern California, author of&nbsp;Susan Sontag "Marguerite Yourcenar was one of the greatest writers of the last century. If we knew anything about her long-time companion, Grace Frick, it was as an eccentric, protective and rather unattractive attendant/translator. But as we have come to recognize the incomparable importance of Alice B. Toklas to Gertrude Stein, now, thanks to this moving and deeply-researched biography by Joan E. Howard, Grace Frick's partnership with Mme Yourcenar will be given the same illustrious credit Frick deserves." --Caroline Seebohm, author of&nbsp;Monumental Dreams: The Life and Sculpture of Ann Norton, and&nbsp;The InnocentsAbout the AuthorJoan E. Howard&nbsp;is the director of Petite Plaisance, the former home of Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick, and is the author of&nbsp;From Violence to Vision: Sacrifice in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar. She divides her time between Augusta and Northeast Harbor, Maine.

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