Jacqueline Starer

Who is Jacqueline Starer?

Jacqueline Starer was born in Paris in 1940. After studying French and Classics at the Sorbonne, she met the English Poet Keith Barnes in Paris in 1963. Together they left for the United States where she taught in several Universities and Colleges and where she discovered American Poetry. After Keith Barnes’s death in Paris, she returned to the United States where she wrote her thesis on the writers of the Beat Generation. In 1976, she is back in Paris, and becomes involved in International Cooperation in Cultural Affairs. She translated the whole poetic work of Keith Barnes into French as well, with Michèle Duclos, as a choice of poems of the Japanese poet Shizue Ogawa. She was Representative for Le Journal des Poètes in France. She is the author of five books: on writers of the Beat Generation, on Keith Barnes, and on the life of French people in the Paris area at the end of the 20th century.