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George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American bookseller who lived most of his life in France. He was the founder and proprietor of the second Shakespeare and Company, which was named after Sylvia Beach 's celebrated original bookstore of the same name (1919 to 1941) on Paris's Left Bank.
Oct 21, 2014 · Chronicling the life of its late owner, the eccentric, irascible, and visionary George Whitman, Bruce Handy meets Shakespeare’s greatest asset in the age of Amazon: Whitman’s daughter, Sylvia....
Dec 15, 2011 · Dec. 14, 2011. PARIS — George Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company, a fabled English-language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris and a magnet for writers, poets and...
Dec 15, 2011 · Reporting from Paris —. George Whitman, the legendary founder of the Paris bookshop and literary institution Shakespeare & Co., died Wednesday. He was 98. The Left Bank bookshop was closed ...
December 15, 20113:00 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. Eleanor Beardsley. 2-Minute Listen. Playlist. The founder of a venerable literary institution in Paris has died at 98. George...
Dec 15, 2011 · George Whitman, the American bibliophile whose iconic English-language Paris bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, has been a haven for book lovers for more than half a century, died yesterday,...
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George Whitman, of Shakespeare & Co. 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. According the shop's website, Whitman was born in 1913 in East Orange, New Jersey.
