Meet Author Kirby Williams

Blue Fountain author Kirby Williams will be at the Reelbooks Christmas Fair on Sunday, December 10 at the Crossroads Writers Club stand. In addition to representing Blue Fountain, Williams will also have copies available of his own novel, Rage in Paris.

Rage follows the story of American Urby Brown, a multiracial jazz musician from New Orleans who decides to leave Jim Crow and move to France in 1914. Brown joins the French foreign legion, fights for in World War I, and later becomes a private eye who gets wrapped up in the search for an American heiress who's not exactly missing...

Publishers Weekly writes of Rage, “A love of Paris and its people, including the poor and the crooked, comes through...as does a passion for jazz. A finely wrought story that depicts the violence of an era with a solid noir touch.”

Listen below as Williams speaks with Pushcart Press founder and editor Bill Henderson on the video series At Pushcart. Learn some of the fascinating stories that led Williams to write Rage, how he met Coretta Scott King, which famous authors have inspired him, and why he decided to move to France in 1962.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeVJuYXwLhg&t=1283s

For more information on Williams' book, see www.rageinparis.com. Copies are available at Reelbooks at 9 rue Ferrare in Fontainebleau or on Amazon.

Williams is currently working on Rage's sequel, The Long Road from Paris, which will be released by Pushcart in 2018.