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Sylvia Beach

1887 - 1962

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Sylvia Beach (14 March 1887 – 5 October 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's book Ulysses (1922), and encouraged the publication of and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Sylvia Beach is the 391st most popular businessperson (up from 417th in 2024), the 4,878th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,011th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Sylvia Beach ranks 391 out of 847. Before her are Douglas Tompkins, Norio Ohga, Satya Nadella, Tanaka Hisashige, Oleg Deripaska, and Tatsumi Kimishima. After her are Mikhail Fridman, Thomas Blake Glover, Silvio Santos, Rina Zaripova, Robert Mercer, and Steve Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Sylvia Beach ranks 152. Before her are Jim Thorpe, Jorge Chávez, Omer Nishani, Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, Chico Marx, and Hristo Lukov. After her are August Kork, Pierre Jean Jouve, Jānis Rudzutaks, Hermann Rauschning, Albert Gutterson, and Pyotr Nesterov. Among people deceased in 1962, Sylvia Beach ranks 111. Before her are Candido Portinari, Richard Herrmann, Hermann Muhs, Pierre Benoit, Philippe Cattiau, and Franz Kaiser. After her are Kunio Yanagita, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Paul Götz, Joe Ruddy, Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, and Carl Diem.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sylvia Beach ranks 4,878 out of 20,380. Before her are Del Shannon (1934), Henry Kuttner (1915), John Marley (1907), Darlene Conley (1934), Kathleen Quinlan (1954), and Dabbs Greer (1917). After her are James Clapper (1941), Gary Coleman (1968), Jimmy Smith (1925), Carl Lumbly (1951), Zendaya (1996), and Wayne Rainey (1960).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Sylvia Beach ranks 122. Before her are David Stern (1942), Roger Ailes (1940), Timothy Dexter (1747), Erin Brockovich (1960), Arnold Rothstein (1882), and Douglas Tompkins (1943). After her are Robert Mercer (1946), Howard Schultz (1953), Peter Lynch (1944), Edwin Drake (1819), Roy E. Disney (1930), and Allen Klein (1931).

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