Throughout the summer and fall, librarians from the American library in Paris will be bringing 'pop-up' versions to other libraries and cultural institutions across the north of France and the ...

Paris, July 16, 1960: An American girl (left) and two French youngsters in the reading room set aside for children at the American Library in Paris.

When Gertrude Stein went on a mystery-reading kick, the American Library in Paris fed her doses of 18 whodunits a week; Poet Stephen Vincent Benét researched John Brown's Body within its ...

Discover how Paris's only American library was born, courtesy of a free tour in honor of the community's 104th anniversary (hint: The founding involves World War I).

This article was originally published with the title “ American Library in Paris ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 10 No. 23 (February 1855), p. 181 doi:10. ...

Paris, July 16, 1960: A patron sits on a stepstool by one of the large windows in the American Library in Paris, daylight illuminating the selection he pulled from the stacks next to him.

In 2010 and 2012, she took a break from writing to work part-time at the American Library in Paris. The experience served as inspiration for writing “The Paris Library.” ...