Gary Lee Kraut

Gary Lee Kraut is the author of five travel guides to France and Paris as well as numerous articles, essays, short stories, and op-ed pieces concerning travel, culture, cross-culture, and expatriate life. Gary Kraut is the recipient of FrancePress’s 1995 Prix d’Excellence for his guide to France published in the Fielding Guidebook Collection. Following the publication of his critically acclaimed guide Paris Revisited: The Guide for the Return Traveler, he founded, under the patronage of Words Travel International, Inc., the online companion Paris Revisited. In 2008 that site evolved into Gary Lee Kraut's France Revisited, a major online magazine exploring travel, touring, and life in France and beyond. Recognized as a unique voice in American travel writing, Gary has lectured extensively in the United States and France, using stories and insights from his travel, touring, and expatriate experiences to reveal how our most rewarding travel experiences are ones in which we find a personal connection with our route or destination. Based on his insights and experience, he is frequently called upon to assist individuals, high-end travel agents, and organizers of specialized tours in creating highly personalized travels in Paris and throughout France. Gary Lee Kraut (Gary Kraut), is originally from Trenton, New Jersey. After receiving a BA from Emory University, he worked with mentally handicapped wards of the state of New Jersey in a prison setting, followed by nine months of wondrous restlessness in Europe, seven months of bartending and waiting in Milwaukee, until the lake froze, and several more months of magical nonsense in Europe. After receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, he worked as a journalist for The Scarsdale Inquirer and sister papers. Revisiting Paris in 1988, he stayed longer than most visitors, et le voilà.