Welcome
to author Jake Lamar's official website.
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Jake
Lamar is the author of the memoir Bourgeois
Blues and five novels: The
Last Integrationist (translated into French as Nous
avions un rêve) Close
to the Bone, If Six
Were Nine (translated into French as Le
Caméléon Noir)
Rendezvous
Eighteenth (translated into French as Rendez-vous dans le 18e) and most recently Ghosts of Saint-Michel.
Born
and raised in the Bronx, New York, he graduated from
Harvard University and then spent six years writing
for Time magazine. In 1993, he went to Paris
intending to stay for a year; he now lives there full-time
with his wife. |