--- title: "3 Noel Riley Fitch Quotes - Famous Historian (Anaïs)" description: "Noël Riley Fitch is an American biographer and historian of expatriate intellectuals in Paris in the first half of the 20th century." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noel-riley-fitch-71828.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Noel Riley Fitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noel-riley-fitch-71828.jpg) # Noel Riley Fitch (1937) Historian **3** quotes in **23** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Noel Riley Fitch is a historian, best known for *Anaïs*. ## Quick Facts About Noel Riley Fitch Born November 30, 1937 Profession Historian Notable works Anaïs ## About Noel Riley Fitch Noël Riley Fitch is an American biographer and historian of expatriate intellectuals in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. She is the author of several books on Paris as well as three biographies: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1983), translated into Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian and French; Anaïs: The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin (1993), published in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish, and nominated for the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle; and she is the first authorized biographer of Julia Child, with Appetite for Life: the Biography of Julia Child (1997). The Ernest Hemingway book, a biographical and geographical study of his Paris years, has been published in Dutch, the Cafés of Paris book in Dutch and German. ## Quotes by Noel Riley Fitch > [Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noel-riley-fitch/dead-or-alive-interesting-people-are-interesting-people/) Noel Riley Fitch [Alive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alive/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/noel-riley-fitch-76732_alive_dead-or-alive-interesting-people-are-int_23078.jpg) > [“She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noel-riley-fitch/she-forgot-the-three-f-s-julia-whispered-to-sara-moulton-feed-em-fuck/) Noel Riley Fitch [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/noel-riley-fitch-76732_forgot_she-forgot-the-three-f-s-julia-whispered_615913.jpg) > [Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noel-riley-fitch/whether-in-print-or-other-media-a-good-biography-is-more-than-a-court/) Noel Riley Fitch [Biography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biography/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/noel-riley-fitch-76732_biography_whether-in-print-or-other-media-a-good-b_2704135.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noel-riley-fitch/#itemlist", "name": "Noel Riley Fitch Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noel Riley Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noel-riley-fitch/dead-or-alive-interesting-people-are-interesting-people/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/noel-riley-fitch-76732_alive_dead-or-alive-interesting-people-are-int_23078.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/noel-riley-fitch-76732_alive_dead-or-alive-interesting-people-are-int_23078.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/noel-riley-fitch-76732_alive_dead-or-alive-interesting-people-are-int_23078.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.” — Noel Riley Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She forgot the three F's,\" Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: \"Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noel Riley Fitch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noel-riley-fitch/she-forgot-the-three-f-s-julia-whispered-to-sara-moulton-feed-em-fuck/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/noel-riley-fitch-76732_forgot_she-forgot-the-three-f-s-julia-whispered_615913.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/noel-riley-fitch-76732_forgot_she-forgot-the-three-f-s-julia-whispered_615913.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/noel-riley-fitch-76732_forgot_she-forgot-the-three-f-s-julia-whispered_615913.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She forgot the three F's,\" Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: \"Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.” — Noel Riley Fitch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. 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