# Sylvia Beach

> American-born bookseller and publisher (1887–1962)

**Wikidata**: [Q265562](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265562)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Beach)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/sylvia-beach

## Summary

Sylvia Beach was born on March 14, 1887, in Baltimore[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and held United States citizenship. She was the daughter of Sylvester Woodbridge Beach[9].Beach worked in multiple roles throughout her life, serving as a nurse, autobiographer, publisher, writer, editor, and translator[10][8][11]. Her professional field centered on the bookstore and publishing house[12].She died on October 5, 1962, in Paris[8][5][1] and was buried at Princeton Cemetery[5].


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5. [Source](https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/culture/books/editor-s-picks/literary-lesbian-heroes-sylvia-beach)
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13. [Source](http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0108)
14. [Source](http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00116)
15. [Source](https://findingaids.lib.buffalo.edu/repositories/3/resources/32)
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20. [Source](https://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00116/00116-P.html)
21. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
22. The Movie Database
23. LIBRIS. 2008