Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887–October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of the leading expatriate figures in Paris between World War I and II. March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Baltimores downtown Motto: BELIEVE (formerly The City That Reads) Nickname: Charm City Mob Town Location in Maryland Founded  -Incorporated 30 July 1729 1797  County Independent city Mayor Martin J. OMalley (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 349. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...

Her father was a Presbyterian pastor and his work took the family to Paris in 1901. Beach loved Paris, and went to live there permanently in 1916 after war work nursing. With her friend Adrienne Monnier she founded a bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, in November 1919, which became a focus for Americans. The bookshop became famous after it published James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922, as a result of Joyce's inability to get an edition out in English-speaking countries. Presbyterianism is a form of church government, practiced by many (although not all) of those Protestant churches (known as Reformed churches), which historically subscribed to the teachings of John Calvin. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Adrienne Monnier (April 26, 1892 - June 19, 1955) was a French poet and publisher and an important figure in the modernist writing scene in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. ... Categories: Bookstores | Stub ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered a significant writer of the 20th century. ... The first edition of Ulysses was published in 1922. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The bookshop was in difficulties throughout the depression of the 1930s, and was kept afloat by the generosity of her circle of friends, including Bryher. She was interned during World War II. The shop was symbolically liberated by Ernest Hemingway in person in 1944 but never re-opened. // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... Bryher (1894-1983) was the pen name of Annie Winnifred Ellerman. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

"Shakespeare and Company" store, Paris, 2004

A new bookshop founded in the 1950s by American George Whitman (no relations to the poet) was granted permission by Sylvia Beach to use the name "Shakespeare & Company". It had a rocky history. Whitman did not register or pay taxes for many years. He was—like many other artists in trouble with Internal Revenue—saved by André Malraux. Image File history File links Shakespeare_and_Company_store_in_Paris. ... Image File history File links Shakespeare_and_Company_store_in_Paris. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... George Whitman is the proprietor of the acclaimed Shakespeare and Co bookstore in Paris, and is a former contemporary of such Beat poets as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... André Malraux, French author, adventurer, and statesman André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture during his lifetime. ...

In 1956, Beach wrote a memoir of the inter-war years, titled Shakespeare and Company, which details the cultural life of Paris at the time. The book contains first-hand observations of D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted... Ezra Pound in 1913. ... T.S. Eliot (by E.O. Hoppe, 1919) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works like The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are considered major achievements of twentieth-century... Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American novelist and playwright. ... André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and spokesman for gay rights (disputed — see talk page). ... Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. ... George Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American composer and pianist of Polish descent. ... Robert Menzies McAlmon (March 9, 1896 - February 2, 1956) was an American author, poet and publisher. ... Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh on February 3, 1874 and died on July 27, 1946 in Paris. ... Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley was born Edward Alexander Crowley on 12 October 1875 and died on 1 December 1947. ... John Quinn can refer to: John Quinn, baseball general manager John Quinn, Roman Catholic archbishop John Quinn, United States Congressman John Quinn, professional wrestler This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City during the 1930s. ... For other things called Man Ray, see Man Ray (disambiguation) Man Ray photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Man Ray (August 27, 1890–November 18, 1976) was an American Dada and Surrealist artist. ...

Beach remained in Paris until her death.

External links

• The Sylvia Beach papers at http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/beach.html

References

• Noel Riley Fitch (June 1, 1983) Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties, W W Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 0393017133
• Alix Sharkey, (March 3, 2002). "The Beats go on". The Observor Magazine. An article on George Whitman and the history of Shakespeare and Company under his proprietorship.