Sylvia Beach

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Sylvia Beach was an American-born bookseller and publisher in Paris best known for founding the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publishing James Joyce’s *Ulysses*.

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instanceOf American expatriate in France
bookseller
person
publisher
associatedWith Ernest Hemingway
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
burialPlace Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1887-03-14
dateOfDeath 1962-10-05
educatedAt Bryn Mawr College
employer Shakespeare and Company bookshop
surface form: Shakespeare and Company
familyName Beach
founded Shakespeare and Company bookshop
surface form: Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Company bookshop
surface form: Shakespeare and Company lending library
fullName Sylvia Beach self-link
genre memoir
givenName Sylvia
hasOccupationRole literary salon host
patron of writers
heritage American
knownFor founding the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris
publishing the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses
supporting modernist writers
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
French
locationOfWork 12 rue de l’Odéon, Paris
Paris
surface form: Paris, France
movement modernism
notableEvent closure of Shakespeare and Company during World War II
publication of Ulysses in 1922
notableWork Shakespeare and Company bookshop
surface form: Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)

Shakespeare and Company bookshop
surface form: Shakespeare and Company (memoir)

Ulysses (first edition publisher)
occupation bookseller
publisher
writer
partner Adrienne Monnier
placeOfBirth Baltimore, Maryland, United States
placeOfDeath Paris
surface form: Paris, France
religion Presbyterianism
residence Paris
surface form: Paris, France
sexOrGender female
sexualOrientation lesbian
workPeriod 20th century

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A Moveable Feast depicts Sylvia Beach
Princeton Cemetery containsGraveOf Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach fullName Sylvia Beach self-link
George Whitman inspiredBy Sylvia Beach
Le Mistral renamedInHonorOf Sylvia Beach
Adrienne Monnier partner Sylvia Beach
Adrienne Monnier closeFriend Sylvia Beach
Adrienne Monnier collaboratedWith Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Whitman relative Sylvia Beach
this entity surface form: Sylvia Beach (namesake, not direct ancestor)