My Time with George Whitman at Shakespeare & Company, Paris
George Whitman just died at the ripe old age of 98. He opened the famous Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare & Company in 1951, renaming it in 1964 in tribute to Sylvia Beach’s bookstore of the same name that closed at the onset of World War II. She ran it as a publishing company that famously published James Joyce’s revolutionary novel “Ulysses” in 1922….