"The
Black Sun Press was an
English-language press noted for
publishing the early works of many
modernist writers including
Hart Crane,
D. H. Lawrence,
Archibald MacLeish,
Ernest Hemingway, and
Eugene Jolas. It enjoyed the greatest longevity among the several expatriate presses founded in Paris during the 1920s, publishing nearly three times as many titles as did Edward Titus under his Black Manikin Press. American
expatriates living in
Paris,
Harry Crosby and his wife
Caresse Crosby (American inventor of the modern
bra) founded the press to publish their own work in April 1927 as
Éditions Narcisse. ... They enjoyed the reception their initial work received, and decided to expand the press to serve other authors, renaming the company the Black Sun Press, following on Harry's obsession on the symbolism of the sun. They published exclusively limited quantities of meticulously produced, hand-manufactured books, printed on high-quality paper. During the 1920s and 1930s Paris was at the crossroads of many emerging expatriate American writers, collectively called the
Lost Generation. ..."
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