<P> The first book of The Sun Also Rises is set in mid-1920s Paris . Americans were drawn to Paris in the Roaring Twenties by the favorable exchange rate , with as many as 200,000 English - speaking expatriates living there . The Paris Tribune reported in 1925 that Paris had an American Hospital , an American Library , and an American Chamber of Commerce . Many American writers were disenchanted with the US , where they found less artistic freedom than in Europe . ( For example , Hemingway was in Paris during the period when Ulysses , written by his friend James Joyce , was banned and burned in New York . ) </P>
<P> The first book of The Sun Also Rises is set in mid-1920s Paris . Americans were drawn to Paris in the Roaring Twenties by the favorable exchange rate , with as many as 200,000 English - speaking expatriates living there . The Paris Tribune reported in 1925 that Paris had an American Hospital , an American Library , and an American Chamber of Commerce . Many American writers were disenchanted with the US , where they found less artistic freedom than in Europe . ( For example , Hemingway was in Paris during the period when Ulysses , written by his friend James Joyce , was banned and burned in New York . ) </P>
when does the sun also rises take place
when does the sun also rises take place
mid-1920s Paris
mid-1920s Paris