Black Sun Press was a book publisher founded in 1927 as Éditions Narcisse by poet Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse, who at the time were expatriates living in Paris. The name was changed to Black Sun Press the following year. Harry Crosby (1898-1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, minor poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature. ... Mary Phelps Jacob (Caresse Crosby) in 1929 The first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance was a bra invented by a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob in 1910. ... An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is someone temporarily or permanently in a country and culture other than that of their upbringing and/or legal residence. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

It was originally formed to publish the works of its founders in lavish, hard-bound volumes. It expanded to publish a number of eminent 20th century authors, including D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, who were friends of Crosby. It also published works by Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Jolas, and Oscar Wilde. D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. ... Kay Boyle, born February 19, 1902 in St. ... Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio, United States – April 26, 1932) was a U.S. poet. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and public servant. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) was a writer, translator and literary critic. ... Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ...