![]() For more about Whitman, see the Shakespeare & Co. The store remains open, run by Whitman's daughter. She is the daughter of the shops founder, the late George Whitman. I greatly enjoyed reading this memoir several years back, and for anyone who knows little about Whitman or his amazing bookstore, it is absolutely worth a read. Sylvia Whitman (April 1, 1981) is the proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company in Paris, the celebrated bohemian bookstore known for welcoming readers and writers from around the world. One of those many lodgers over the years was journalist Jeremy Mercer, who, in 2005, published an account of this bohemian lifestyle, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. Whitman was known for his free spirit, and for allowing thousands of lodgers to stay in the shop in exchange for a few hours of book sorting and shelving. after the famous shop owned earlier in the century by Sylvia Beach. He moved to Paris in 1948, opened Le Mistral bookshop, and soon renamed it Shakespeare & Co. ![]() According the shop's website, Whitman was born in 1913 in East Orange, New Jersey. ![]() It would greatly remiss of us not to pause for a brief moment and think about George Whitman, a 98-year-old Paris bookseller, who died yesterday, fittingly in the apartment over his bookshop, Shakespeare & Co. ![]()
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