Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) and Sylvia Beach (1887-1962) both came to Paris from America with the goal of success. Although radically different, each was able to achieve their goal on their own and with the support of the other, their goals became much easier to achieve. Thanks to the opportunities provided by Beach, Hemingway went from an aspiring writer to a Nobel Prize winner in literature. The influence of Sylvia Beach and her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, provided a springboard—through readily available novels to study and opportunities to meet other notable authors—that Hemingway needed as a young, novice writer at Paris to flourish in the great American prose author that the world considers him today. Before Sylvia Beach launched Hemingway or any other new American writer, she herself began as an American on the Left Bank of Paris. As Beach explains in Shakespeare and Company (1956), his goal had always been to open a French bookstore in New York, but with the help of his French friend and publisher Adrienne, Beach ultimately decided that it would be much more realistic to open a French bookstore in New York. travel to Paris and open an English bookstore there. Once in Paris, the Beach bookstore finally found its home at 12 rue de l'Odéon. Beach ran the bookstore – or lending library – without organization, but it quickly became an alcove for American writers in Paris. Matthew Stewart says in Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers (2001): "[Sylvia Beach] promoted young writers by stockpiling their books, encouraging them, and instituting a policy of affordable loan and, like its small The workshop quickly grew to become the lost generation writing center... middle of paper ... way to start one's career. Works Cited Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner'sSons, 1969. Print.Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and company. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1956. PrintFitch, Noël Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. New York: Norton, 1985. Print. Hemingway, Ernest. In our time. 1925. Rpt. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.—. A moveable party. 1964. Rep. New York: Scribner, 2003. Print.—. The sun is also rising. 1926. Rpt. New York: Scribner, 2006. Print. Stewart, Matthew. Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A Guide for Students and Readers. Rochester: Camden House, 2001. Print. Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline. Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: The Creation of the Myth. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. Print.