Jacqueline Starer

Jacqueline Starer was an English professor.

Early life She was born in Paris in 1940. After studying French and Classics at the Sorbonne, she met English poet Keith Barnes (1934–1969) in Paris in 1963. Together they left for the United States where she taught at University of California, Berkeley and Bard College) and discovered American Poetry. After Barnes's death in Paris, she returned to the United States where she wrote her thesis on the writers of the Beat Generation (directed by Roger Asselineau at the Sorbonne).

Career In 1976, she returned to Paris and became involved in International Cooperation in Cultural Affairs. She translated Barnes' poetic work into French, with Michèle Duclos, as well as poems of the Japanese poet Shizue Ogawa. She was a representative for Le Journal des Poètes (Brussels) in France (2006–2012). She authored five books: on writers of the Beat Generation, on Keith Barnes, and on the life of French people in the Paris area at the end of the 20th century.