Cause of death: Stroke
Location: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
George Whitman was the American born proprietor of the famous English-language bookstore, Shakespeare & Company, on the Left Bank in Paris.
Whitman founded his bookstore in 1951. It was originally called La Mistral, after the Chilean poet Gabriella Mistral, whose work Whitman admired, but the shop was renamed Shakespeare & Company in 1964.
Whitman allowed aspiring novelists to stay at the store for days, weeks and even months at a time, offering them a makeshift bed among the shelves and alcoves of the shop in exchange for a few hours of work each day.
Many established authors and poets visited the shop to read from their work and sign their books; visitors included: Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Samuel Beckett, James Baldwin, Lawrence Durrell, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
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