Black Paris Profiles™: Jake Lamar

I have had the pleasure of interviewing writer Jake Lamar on more than one occasion, including an exchange that led to a feature article on Africana.com in 2004, shortly after the publication of his fourth novel, Rendezvous Eighteenth. A lot has happened since then, so I contacted Jake for an update. Read on to find out what twists and turns his career has taken in the last seven years.


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Jake Lamar
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Jake Lamar is a novelist and a journalist. On the journalist side, he contributes to the The Root, “the leading online source of news and commentary from an African-American perspective.” At the time of this writing, his latest article for the publication addressed the domestic terrorist attack in Norway. On the novelist side, he is working on a book that is a big departure from his “normal” genre – he says that “it’s not a thriller, it’s not set in Paris, and it does not deal with racial questions.”

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Black Paris Profiles™: Zachary Miller

Zachary James Miller is a PhD psychologist/parapsychologist and filmmaker – quite an unusual combination of professions! Zach agreed to an interview for the Black Paris Profiles™ series when I solicited his support for the Beauford Delaney Gravesite Project in 2010. His is another fascinating and atypical story of an African American living in 21st-century Paris.
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A native of Akron, Ohio, Zachary James Miller has lived in Paris for the past twenty years, and enjoys life here with his wife Violaine and his son Elias. His first impressions of Paris were based on his knowledge of the history of the city. After they arrived and settled in the 17th arrondissement in 1990, he and Violane would often walk around town to discover where Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright and others had lived. He read books by these authors again, especially Hemingway’s A Movable Feast. He remembers being amazed that Richard Wright spent the last twelve years of his life in Paris, and wondering how Wright could have left the US for so long. He now notes that his own time in Paris has far surpassed that of Wright.

Zachary Miller at the café Libre Echange
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Black Paris Profiles™ is now available on Kindle.  Only excerpts are available on this blog.

To get your copy of Black Paris Profiles™, click HERE.

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Entrée to Black Paris!™ is a Discover Paris! blog.

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