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Frances Steloff

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on December 31, 1887. Her mother died when she was young, and at 12 she was taken in by a couple who offered her a home. She dropped out of school in the seventh grade. At the age of 19, she moved to New York where she worked at Loeser's, a department store. She then worked in several bookstores, and
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Morgan, Kathleen (1975). "Introduction: Frances Steloff and the Gotham Book Mart".
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in the late 1920s. She founded the James Joyce Society at the store in 1947.
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Wise Men Fish Here: The Story of Frances Steloff and the Gotham Book Mart
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This article about an American businessperson born in the 1880s is a
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She challenged government censorship, ordering smuggled copies of
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Steloff married David Moss in 1923. They divorced in 1930.
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literature and literati from 1920 until it closed in 2007.
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Lynn Gilbert
Gotham Book Mart
New York City
Saratoga Springs, New York
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
D. H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Robbie Robertson
The Weight
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller



"Frances Steloff Is Dead at 101; Founded the Gotham Book Mart"
"One of the Greatest Rock and Roll Songs of All Time was Inspired by a Jewish Bookseller"
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