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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 .
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His future career seemed set in the news paper and printing trades, but then two of New York’s worst fires wiped out the major printing and business centers of the city, and, in the midst of a dismal financial climate, Whitman retreated to rural Long Island, joining his family at Hempstead in 18 36.
George Washington Whitman proved he was fittingly named after America's first patriot when he responded with full measure to his country's call following the Rebel attack on Fort Sumter. George joined the local militia (Thirteenth New York) in the spring of 1861 and then enlisted that fall with the Fifty-first New York Volunteers to serve for ...
Oct 21, 2014 · And that’s how I first met George Whitman.” George was born in New Jersey in 1913; he grew up in an academic, middle-class home in Salem, Massachusetts.
Apr 2, 2014 · He started to work as an office boy for a Brooklyn-based attorney team and eventually found employment in the printing business. His father's increasing dependence on alcohol and...
1841-1845. Whitman moves back to New York City to work as a printer. He also begins publishing fiction and poetry, as well as journalistic pieces, in newspapers and journals. In 1842 his...
Mar 22, 2016 · Walt Whitman is often celebrated as America’s finest poet. But it was a different story when he was alive. Whitman (1819-92) was ridiculed and ostracized during his lifetime. His seminal work — “Leaves of Grass,” a collection of free-verse poems — was called by many obscene for its overt sexuality.
