Although named Nancy after her grandmother Orbison, she later decided to change her name to Sylvia. She had an older sister, Holly, and a younger sister, Cyprian. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's book, Ulysses (1922), and encouraged the publication of and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923).īeach was born in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on 14 March 1887, the second of three daughters of Sylvester Beach and Eleanor Thomazine Orbison. Sylvia Beach (14 March 1887 – 5 October 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.
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