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Noël Riley Fitch is an award-winning biographer and historian of expatriate intellectuals in Paris during the first half of the 1900s.

She is a full-time writer, lectures widely, and teaches a professional writing course at the University of Southern California (during the regular academic year) and a summer literature course at the American University in Paris.

In addition to being frequently interviewed on radio and television, she has appeared in several documentary films, including Berenice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century (1992) and the A&E biography of Julia Child first shown October 14, 1997, which is based on Fitch's Biography of Julia Child, Appetite for Life.

Fitch earned a Ph.D. in literature from Washington State University and has taught in Washington, Massachusetts, and California. She has edited a book entitled Faith and Imagination with Richard Etulain and published scholarly and journalistic articles in numerous periodicals.

Her most recent book, co-authored with illustrator Rick Tulka, is Paris Café:The Sélect Crowd (Nov. 2007)