Lyla Blake Ward
Lyla Blake Ward‘s work has appeared in newspapers across the country from The Washington Post and The New York Daily News to The Chicago Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle plus many others. Recent magazine essays have appeared in Grand, Submittable, The Writer, Next Generation,. She is the author of two books: How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying and Broadway, Schrafft’s and Seeded Rye: Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side. She resides in Somers, New York, with Russ, her husband of 70+ years.
Toujours Maurice
Lyla Blake Ward, who previously wrote for France Revisited about her experiences in Paris in 1952, recalls the pleasure of seeing Maurice Chevalier perform twice then of meeting him in person in an indelible third encounter.
1952: The First Time I Saw Paris…
Lyla Blake Ward revisits her first trip to Paris as a 24-year-old newlywed with her husband Russ. The year was 1952 and the city was still coated in its post-war grime.