Shakespeare and Company and the Paris Magazine

The Paris Magazine was first published in 1967 by George Whitman my father when the bookshop had been closed by the French authorities because George's papers were not in order. […] Describing in the magazine how he came to be a bookseller George said:

Like many of my compatriots I am something of a tumbleweed drifting in the wind. I drifted into bookselling for no better reason than a passion for books except for the classical reason of all booksellers who are self-employed because they doubt if anyone would employ them.

Sylvia WHITMAN