London Book Fair 2013

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

George Whitman, Paris bookseller and cultural beacon, is dead at 98

George Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company, a fabled English-language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris and a magnet for writers, poets and tourists for close to 60 years, died on Wednesday in his apartment above the store. He was 98

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