Sylvia Beach

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American expatriate in France bookseller person publisher

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*.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
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 →
familyName	Beach →
founded	Shakespeare and Company → Shakespeare and Company lending library →
fullName	Sylvia Beach →
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, France →
movement	modernism →
notableEvent	closure of Shakespeare and Company during World War II → publication of Ulysses in 1922 →
notableWork	Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) → Shakespeare and Company (memoir) → Ulysses (first edition publisher) →
occupation	bookseller → publisher → writer →
partner	Adrienne Monnier →
placeOfBirth	Baltimore, Maryland, United States →
placeOfDeath	Paris, France →
religion	Presbyterianism →
residence	Paris, France →
sexOrGender	female →
sexualOrientation	lesbian →
workPeriod	20th century →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Princeton Cemetery →	containsGraveOf
A Moveable Feast →	depicts
Sylvia Beach →	fullName