The Paris Bookseller by Kerry Maher is a novelization of the life of Sylvia Beach, who in 1919 cofounded the legendary bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She’s also known for publishing Ulysses by James Joyce in 1922, at great personal and financial risk.

This review of The Paris Bookseller is contributed by N.J. Maher, from her site, Herstory Revisted: Biofiction Book Reviews. Reprinted by permission.

Certain people stick with you, whether you meet them in person, or, as with historical fiction, you meet them on the page. Such is the case for me with the protagonist in The Paris Bookseller, by Kerri Maher. It isn’t often a reader gets a front-row seat to a period in literary history, but Maher gives us one through Sylvia Beach, an American living in post-World War I Paris.

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