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Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge
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| Bookseller and publisher, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. In 1919 she established the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, which became an avant-garde publishing house and mecca for US expatriates. In 1922 she published the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, which had been rejected by other publishers as pornographic. In 1941 she closed her bookstore in defiance of the German occupation, and later was interned for seven months. She never re-opened the store, but she was widely honoured for her support of Joyce and other authors. |
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