TY - BOOK ID - 352545 TI - The letters of Sylvia Beach AU - Beach, Sylvia AU - Walsh, Keri AU - Fitch, Noel Riley PY - 2010 SN - 9780231145367 0231145365 9780231517843 023151784X 0231145373 PB - New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - Beach, Sylvia KW - 655.42 <44 PARIS> KW - 655.52 KW - 82:655.5 KW - Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk--PARIS KW - Relatie auteur-uitgever: royalties, contracten, rechten, vertaalrechten--z.o.{347.788} KW - Literatuur en uitgeverij. Literatuur en boekhandel KW - 82:655.5 Literatuur en uitgeverij. Literatuur en boekhandel KW - Americans KW - Booksellers and bookselling KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Book publishing KW - Books KW - Book industries and trade KW - Book sales KW - Yankees KW - Ethnology KW - Publishing KW - Beach, Nancy Woodbridge KW - Woodbridge Beach, Nancy KW - Beach, Nancy Woodbridge, KW - Woodbridge Beach, Nancy, KW - Book dealers KW - Dealers, Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:352545 AB - Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. Founder of the Left Bank's Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), her facility for nurturing talent and promoting the avant-garde are legendary. In this first collection of her letters, we witness Beach's day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Beach's friends and clients included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. As librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, she carved out a unique place at the crossroads of English and French letters. This volume reveals Beach's wit and resourcefulness, sharing her negotiations with Marianne Moore to place Joyce's work in The Dial; her battle to curb the piracy of Ulysses in the United States; her struggle to keep Shakespeare & Company afloat during the Depression; and her long love affair with the French bookstore owner Adrienne Monnier. The letters also illuminate Beach's childhood in Princeton, New Jersey, her work in Serbia for the American Red Cross, her internment in a German prison camp during the Second World War, and her friendships with a new expatriate generation in the 1950s and 1960s. ER -