Some of those who were connected with it from the beginning and as you might say grew up with it, were Robert McAlmon, Ernest Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, Scott Fitzgerald, Archibald McLeish, Kay Boyle – to name only a few: their elders were Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Opened an American bookshop-lending library on the left bank, Paris in 1919 – called Shakespeare and Company: which was rather famous as a result of writers. Sylvester Woodbridge Beach who was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey: This musing on her active years in literary Paris is excerpted from Everybody I Can Think Of Ever: Meetings That Made the Avant-Garde by Francis Booth, reprinted by permission.īeach wrote her own résumé towards the end of her life in a letter dated April 23, 1951, to the American Library in post-war Paris, when she donated the remaining books from Shakespeare and Company to them. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all.Sylvia Beach (1887 – 1962) was the legendary owner of the legendary bookshop Shakespeare and Company the meeting place for all of literary Paris in the 1920s, and the publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922. Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Headquarters for the expatriate American writers, the shop was also a favorite stopping-off place for Gide, Valéry, and other faithful international friends and customers.- San Francisco Chronicle When no publisher would touch her friend James Joyce's Ulysses, Miss Beach published it, in 1922, under her shop imprint. During the following two decades it became practically a clearing house for writers of this vital post-1918 period. In 1919 Sylvia Beach opened an American bookshop in Paris called Shakespeare and Company. Lawrence, and others already famous or soon to be. Like her bookstore, his publishing house, New Directions, is considered a cultural touchstone.įrom the Back Cover This book evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. In his introduction to this new edition, James Laughlin recalls his friendship with Sylvia Beach.
Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Alice B.
Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted.
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