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That Summer in Paris is a memoir by Canadian writer Morley Callaghan. It was first published in 1963.

Plot
The memoir begins with Callaghan hearing, in 1961, of Ernest Hemingway's death. Thinking about Hemingway causes Callaghan to reminisce about the great writer, and That Summer is the result. It begins by detailing Callaghan's first job as a newspaperman on the Toronto Star and his first meeting with Hemingway, who briefly took work there as well. Hemingway is a revelation for Callaghan: his intensity and brutal concentration on the work of being a writer, bringing with him news of dozens more writers in Paris. The two maintained correspondence after Hemingway left for Paris, and eventually, in the summer of 1929, Callaghan and his wife followed suit. The book is largely made up of small vignettes of the literati Callaghan met while there: Ford Maddox Ford, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Robert McAlmon, and many others. The most significant (for Callaghan) of these is F. Scott Fitzgerald. Callaghan has