RIP George Whitman, Legendary Bookseller

Lisa Dusenbery bio ↓ · December 15th, 2011 · filed under books

George Whitman, owner of Shakespeare & Company, the famous Parisian English-language bookstore, passed away yesterday. Of his 98 years of life, 60 were devoted to his bookstore (the sister shop to San Francisco’s City Lights) described as an “offbeat mix of open house and literary commune.”

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RIP George Whitman, Legendary Bookseller

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