Writing is on the wall: Storied Shakespeare and Company bookshop faces closure. 'We've used all our savings': Sylvia Whitman, owner of the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore. We've had 30,000 people sleep in the bookshop," Whitman said, adding that it was one way the shop founders encouraged writers to be creative. Founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, Shakespeare & Company became a creative hub for expatriate writers including Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Sylvia Whitman looked to the past for a solution to her new problem.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 10, 2020 22:41 UTC