Sylvia Beach

GPTKB entity

Properties (58)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Person
gptkbp:associatedWith Lost Generation
gptkbp:awards Honorary_Doctorate_from_the_University_of_Paris
gptkbp:birthDate 1887-04-14
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Baltimore,_Maryland,_USA
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
gptkbp:contribution Promoted modernist literature
gptkbp:culturalImpact Significant figure in 20th-century literature
gptkbp:deathDate 1962-01-18
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_New_Jersey
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Shakespeare_and_Company_bookstore
gptkbp:friend gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:T.S._Eliot
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sylvia Beach
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:Gertrude_Stein
gptkbp:influenceOn Literary salons
Modern publishing practices
Women in literature
Cultural_exchange_between_America_and_Europe
Contemporary_bookstores
Expatriate_writers_in_Paris
gptkbp:involvedIn Literary_community_in_Paris
gptkbp:knownFor Cultural hub for expatriate writers
Publishing Shakespeare and Company
gptkbp:legacy Influence on literary culture
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableEvent Publication of Ulysses in 1922
Closure_of_Shakespeare_and_Company_in_1941
Opening_of_Shakespeare_and_Company_in_1919
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:Wallace_Stevens
gptkb:Simone_de_Beauvoir
gptkb:D.H._Lawrence
gptkb:Paul_Valéry
gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkb:Richard_Wright
gptkb:Marianne_Moore
gptkb:André_Gide
gptkb:Jean-Paul_Sartre
gptkb:Anaïs_Nin
gptkb:Robert_McAlmon
gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams
gptkb:Gertrude_Stein
gptkb:Henry_Miller
gptkb:Proust
gptkb:Eugene_Jolas
Pound
Eliot
Hemingway
Joyce
gptkbp:notableWork Ulysses_by_James_Joyce
gptkbp:occupation Bookseller
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Paris,_France
gptkbp:spouse nan