“The Paris Library” marks Janet Skeslien Charles’s second novel of her writing career. Based upon her own experiences working at the American Library in Paris and growing up in rural Montana, Charles ...

While writing the World War II book “The Paris Library,” I became fascinated with the staff of the American Library in Paris. At great peril, these librarians, from the director Dorothy Reeder ...

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 ...

The library, which will be housed in Paris, will contain texts, audio-visual aids material and film strips. The 100 educators at the parley each received three manuals listing the reference ...