Search results
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 .
Dec 15, 2011 · George Whitman was born on Dec. 12, 1913, in East Orange, N.J., and grew up in Salem, Mass. His thirst for travel was awakened when his father, a physics teacher, took the family to China for a ...
Oct 21, 2014 · George Whitman left behind a remarkable collection of papers which people at the shop call archives, but which, in their native state, were monstrous, avalanche-ready piles of letters, documents ...
Dec 15, 2011 · George Bates Whitman was born Dec. 12, 1913, in East Orange, N.J., and grew up in Salem, Mass. He sometimes suggested — against all evidence — that he was related to the poet Walt Whitman.
- Matt Schudel
The founder of a venerable literary institution in Paris has died at 98. George Whitman founded the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, across from the Notre Dame cathedral. The shop was a magnet ...
Dec 15, 2011 · Over the years, George Whitman sheltered about 50,000 young, struggling writer types for free at Shakespeare & Co. on the Left Bank. It also was a magnet for writers like Allen Ginsberg, Anais Nin ...
People also ask
Who was George Whitman?
Where did George Whitman grow up?
What did George Whitman do after WW2?
What did George Whitman leave behind?
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.
