Thursday 22 December 2011

Saying Goodbye to George Whitman


Family, friends and the writers of Paris turned out today to say goodbye to George Whitman, founder of the world famous Shakespeare and Company, who died last week at the grand age of 98. 


He was buried at Pere Lachaise this afternoon following a beautiful service with eulogies from Jeanette Winterson and his daughter Sylvia and readings of Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas, So Long by Walt Whitman, George Himself by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and George's open letter The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart.


Without George's unfailing generosity there would be no Other Writers group for me to go to and I would never have met all my Parisian friends.


My happy life here is largely thanks to him.

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