The shop, Shakespeare and Company, became a gathering place for American expatriates such as Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, as well as French intellectuals such as André Gide. The two became lifelong partners, and Beach opened her own bookshop in 1919.
After working with the Red Cross in the Baltic region, Beach found herself in Paris, where she befriended Adrienne Monnier, owner of a bookstore and lending library. During her adolescence, she lived in France, Spain and New Jersey. Raised in Maryland and New Jersey, she moved with her family to France in 1901, when her father, a Presbyterian minister, was assigned to a church in Paris. She famously published James Joyce‘s Ulysses, when nobody else would touch it. Sylvia Beach was an American in Paris whose bookshop was a beacon for the literary elite of the period between World War I and World War II.
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