The Letters of Sylvia Beach

(Columbia University Press) Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare & Company in 1919 and first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922, Sylvia Beach was legendary for nurturing literary talent. This first collection of her letters show her day-to-day dealings as a bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris, and chronicles her relationships with friends and clients like Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. Keri Walsh is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles.