Here is author Terry Southern’s 1949 student identification card from La Sorbonne. While abroad, he entered the literary scene and met many individuals with whom he would later collaborate, including William Burroughs, Richard Seaver, and Henry Green.
After attending college in Texas and serving in the army, Southern played a vital role in the expatriate American café society of 1950s Paris. He befriended other intellectuals and met with eminent French theorists like Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The dynamic intellectual environment of the French capital catalyzed the production of his first novel, Flash and Filigree, a satire ...