The new novel by the author of the international bestseller, ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN. After recovering from grave wounds suffered in The Great War, Bogey Lambert, a young cowboy from Colorado, makes his way to 1920s Paris, where he encounters the beautiful painter, Chrysis Jungbluth. Precocious, passionate, talented, the free-spirited Chrysis rebels against a society and an art world in which men have all the privilege and women none. By day, a serious student at the prestigious l'École des Beaux-Arts, at night Chrysis loses herself to the sensual pleasures of the Montparnasse nightlife, where all seems permissible. There, she and the American cowboy will live the love of a lifetime.
Jim Fergus was born in Chicago of a French mother and an American father. For ten years he worked as a teaching tennis pro in Colorado and Florida, and in 1980 moved to the tiny town of Rand, Colorado (pop. 13), to begin his career as a full-time freelance writer. During the next two decades Fergus published hundreds of articles, essays, interviews and profiles in a wide variety of regional and national magazines and newspapers. His first book, a travel/sporting memoir titled, A Hunter's Road, was published by Henry Holt in 1992.
Fergus's first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd was published by St. Martin's Press in 1998. The novel won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association, and has since sold well over a million copies in the United States. The French translation - Mille Femmes Blanches - won the "Best First Foreign Novel" award, and has sold over 400,000 copies in that country.
In 1999, St. Martin's Press published a collection of Fergus's outdoor articles and essays, titled The Sporting Road, and in the spring of 2005, Hyperion Press published The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, an historical adventure novel set in the 1930s in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico.
In 2011, Fergus published a family historical fiction in France entitled Marie-Blanche, a novel unavailable in an English language edition. In the spring of 2013, Fergus published another novel in France, Chrysis: Portrait de l'Amour, a love story set in 1920's Paris. Chrysis was also published in America in 2013 under the title The Memory of Love. In 2016, the second novel in the One Thousand White Women trilogy, The Vengeance of Mothers, was published by St. Martin's Press. The third and final volume, Strongheart, will be published by St. Martin's Press in April of 2021
Jim Fergus divides his time between southern Arizona, the northern Rocky Mountains, France, and French Polynesia.
