While conducting research at the Bibliothèque Nationale, in a French literary journal Beach read of a lending library and bookshop, La Maison des Amis des Livres at 7 rue de l'Odéon, Paris VI. During the last years of the Great War, she was drawn back to Paris to study contemporary French literature. Beach made several return trips to Europe, lived for two years in Spain, and worked for the Balkan Commission of the Red Cross. īeach spent the years 1902–1905 in Paris, returning to New Jersey in 1906 when her father became minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton. Then in 1901, the family moved to France upon Sylvester Beach's appointment as assistant minister of the American Church in Paris and director of the American student center. When the girls were young the family lived in Baltimore and in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Her maternal grandparents were missionaries to India, and her father, a Presbyterian minister, was descended from several generations of clergymen. Although named Nancy after her grandmother Orbison, she later decided to change her name to Sylvia.
She had an older sister, Holly, and a younger sister, Cyprian. 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).īeach was born in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on 14 March 1887, the second of three daughters of Sylvester Beach and Eleanor Thomazine Orbison. 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.
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