George Whitman
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 12 years ago |
Date of birth | December 12,1913 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | East Orange |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Date of died | December 14,2011 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Books | Introduction to Microtonal Music: For Composers and Instrumentalists in Conventional and Electronic Media |
Children | Sylvia Whitman |
Movies/Shows | Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man |
The Beat Hotel | |
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ID | 796333 |
George Whitman Life story
George Whitman was the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the celebrated English-language bookstore on Paris's Left Bank. He was a contemporary of writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, as well as a lifelong friend of the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.