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Francis Steegmuller

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4 picks · 1958–1986

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THE INCIDENT AT NAPLES
a reporter at large ·

AREPORTER AT LARGE about the writer being hospitalized in Naples, Italy and New York City, as a result of a robbery in Italy. Honor and Virtue. Those are …

An Angel, a Flower, a Bird
onward and upward with the arts ·

Francis Steegmuller’s 1969 profile of Barbette, the trapeze artist who always performed his first acts dressed in a ball gown and served as a muse for the writer Jean Cocteau.

The Long Of It
fiction ·

The writer is a very tall man and his brother Walter is even taller. This fact has been remarked upon all their lives & they are used to it. Recently they …

Mother's Day At the Porte de Vanves
fiction ·

Description of the odd multiple celebration that occurred in the Porte de Vanves section of Paris on Sunday June 1, as reported to the writer by an …