![]() She also tells the story of how a Presbyterian minister’s daughter-who went to church in Princeton, NJ with Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson-became a pioneering out lesbian modernist bookseller in Paris.īeach remembers meeting “all the French writers” at Monnier’s shop after her time studying at the Sorbonne and how American writers all came to Paris to escape prohibition at home. Forty years after the novel’s publication, Beach traveled to Ireland to celebrate and sat down for the long interview above in which she remembers those heady times. Joyce was shaped by Paris, and owed a huge debt of gratitude to Beach, just as readers of Ulysses do almost 100 years later. She also published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922 when no one else would, after earlier published excerpts were deemed “obscene.” ![]() She supported the great expatriate modernists and hosted French writers like André Gide and Paul Valéry. Beach’s mostly English-language Shakespeare and Company would become a lending-library, post office, bank, and even hotel for authors who congregated there. ![]() Beach founded the shop in 1919, encouraged (and funded) by her partner Adrienne Monnier, who owned a French-language bookstore. ![]()
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