The Washington Post - George Whitman, owner of Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company, dies at 98, Dec 15, 2011

"George Whitman, the owner of Shakespeare and Company, a bookshop that became the center of English-language literary life in Paris and might be the most famous and beloved bookstore in the world, died Dec. 14 in his apartment above the store. He died two days after his 98th birthday.

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