2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love.
Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada ``Bricktop`` Smith, which brings the players from the World of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld..
Following this nonfiction account, T.
Bricktop\'s Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these Women and the city they encountered.
Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse.
These Women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love