When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in 1919, many of the most prominent writers of the Lost Generation—including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce—consider the bookstore a second home and when Joyce´s controversial novel Ulysses is banned, Beach takes a massive risk and publishes it under the auspices of Shakespeare and Company.

Co-written by N.H. Cohen and Zel Anders

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Video Interview with Sylvia Beach