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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.
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.
"Hemingway at Shakespeare & Company". Literary Traveler. "The Shakespeare and Company Project Digitizes the Records of the Famous Bookstore, Showing the Reading Habits of the Lost Generation". Open Culture. 14 May 2020; Maher, Kerri (2022). The Paris Bookseller. New York: Berkley. ISBN 978-0-593-10218-3. OCLC 1249630070.
I have moved the original defunct "Shakespeare and Company" Paris bookstore to its own article [ edit ] Just so people don't get massively confused, I have moved the entirety of the information about Sylvia Beach's 1919-1941 bookstore to Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941) .
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.
Shakespeare and Company, Shakespeare & Company, or Shakespeare & Co. may refer to: Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941), an influential English-language bookshop in Paris, France founded by Sylvia Beach; Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), an English-language bookstore in Paris, founded by George Whitman in 1951
FestivalandCo is a literary festival held in Paris, France at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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.