Harold J. Salemson was a very young American writer in Paris at the close of the twenties and one of the few whose work grew largely out of a French education. Unlike the expatriates who went to Paris "to live cheaply and be able to write an American book," Salemson went to France twice as a boy for extended periods of schooling and returned to Paris as a free-lance writer and critic. His wide range of literary and artistic interests placed him in the company of such writers as transition magazine publisher Eugene Jolas, novelist and transition editor Elliot Paul, poet Richard Thoma, novelist and critic Ludwig Lewisohn, and editor Samuel Putnam. Although he relished the spirit of tolerance in Paris, Salemson viewed his work there from an American orientation. He wrote in transition 14 (Fall 1928): "Those who, like myself, feel that they are here to imbibe everything they...