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George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American bookseller who lived most of his life in France. He was the founder and proprietor of the second Shakespeare and Company, which was named after Sylvia Beach's celebrated original bookstore of the same name (1919 to 1941) on Paris's Left Bank.
Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookstore opened in 1951 by George Whitman, located on Paris's Left Bank. The store was named after Sylvia Beach's bookstore of the same name founded in 1919 on the Left Bank, which closed in 1941. Whitman adopted the "Shakespeare and Company" name for his store in 1964.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris, location of the now-defunct Shakespeare and Company, with memorial plaque partially visible on the far right Plaque at 12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI, which reads "In 1922, in this house, Mlle. Sylvia Beach published Ulysses by James Joyce."
Shakespeare and Company (First Bison Book, New ed.). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-6097-0. Fitch, Noël Riley (1 June 1983). Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W W Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 0-393-01713-3. Glass, Charles (2009). Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi ...
Whitman, born in 1981 in Paris, [2] is the only child of George Whitman (1913–2011), who in 1951 founded the Shakespeare and Company bookstore located at 37 rue de la Bûcherie in Paris. Her mother was Felicity Leng, a young British woman who had a brief marriage with George.
John W. Shakespeare, a wealthy sportsman and owner of Shakespeare Oil Company in Centralia who dabbled in leisure pursuits that ranged from sports car racing to orchid horticulture. His father, William, the inventor of the level-winding fishing reel, had amassed a fortune manufacturing tackle.The younger Shakespeare, born in 1905, enjoyed ...
It was founded in Paris, France, at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in 2000. [1] The group operates as an association under the French laws of 1901. The name derives from 'Kilometre Zero', the point in front of Notre Dame cathedral. The Kilometer Zero magazine was created as an advertising free creative and political platform.