Kiki's Memoirs
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Kiki's Memoirs is a 1929 autobiographical account about Alice Prin (October 2, 1901 - April 29, 1953), often known as, Kiki de Montparnasse; a model, artist, and actress working in Montparnasse, Paris in the first half of the twentieth century.
Her memoirs are a lively account of the bohemian lifestyle typical among the artists in Paris during the 1920s, with an introduction provided by Ernest Hemingway and Tsuguharu Foujita. The memoirs were first published by Edward W. Titus in English in 1930, but due to their sometimes explicit content, were banned in the United States until the 1970s. A new edition was released in 1996.
Hemingway's introduction was also published separately as a pamphlet. Hemingway praised Kiki's skill as a writer and there is considerable evidence that suggests his own memoir, A Moveable Feast, was influenced by that of Kiki.
References
- Paris: Edward W. Titus, at the Sign of the Black Manikin Press, 1930.
Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam.
