An American in Paris A Novel

Set in the sapphist salons of Gertrude Stein and Natalie Barney, where Alice B Toklas, Djuna Barnes, Romaine Brooks and Sylvia Beach define the modernist avante-garde, An American in Paris introduces Henrietta Adamas, recently graduated and newly minted as a foreign correspondent assigned to report on the burgeoning artistic elite of Paris. In the process, she discovers romantic intrigue, along with an international art theft that implicates none other than Picasso, while inventing for herself a charmed life that could not be imagined in her American past.

Margaret Vandenburg is a novelist, playwright, and essayist whose books include: Craze, a Roaring Twenties romp; The Home Front, a portrait of a family facing autism; and Weapons of Mass Destruction, an Iraq War requiem. Her plays include Roe v. Wade 2.0, the centerpiece of a theater-based reproductive rights coalition, and Belly of the Beast, a finalist for the Drama League Award for Outstanding Digital Theater. Having completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Vandenburg spent her academic career as a Senior Lecturer at Barnard College, specializing in modernism, postmodernism, and gender studies. She lives in the Hudson Valley, a stone’s throw from New York City. margaretvandenburg.com