… from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, UD moved to Paris for a year, where she did dissertation research.
Through a mutual friend, she met Lisa Nesselson, a fellow Northwestern University graduate who, with her boyfriend, Glenn Myrent, had moved to the city to write about film.
Lisa’s friend Mark Hunter happened to be moving back to the States for a few months, and UD was able to sublet his apartment on the rue de la Grande Chaumiere, steps away from Montparnasse, and a few doors down from where Samuel Beckett once lived.
This connection to an apartment was only one of many kindnesses displaced UD received from Lisa, who went on to translate several books and work as a film critic.
Her wit and charm, and her distinctive voice, have now brought her to radio and tv.
When UD first knew her, Lisa was struggling – living in a ridiculously small seventh-floor walkup in Paris, doing this and doing that to stay in France, watch films, and write about them. All these years she’s persisted in doing what she wants to do with her life, in the city where she wants to do it, and UD salutes her.