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John Sumner (wearing hat and glasses) burning obscene books in New York, 1935. Sumner and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice instigated obscenity proceedings against
The Little Review
in 1921.
© Bettman/CORBIS
Anthony Comstock, founder of the New York Society of the Suppression of Vice. The scar on his left cheek was from a pornographer’s knife.
The seal of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
John Quinn, a wealthy New York lawyer and art collector, defended
Ulysses
against obscenity charges in 1921.
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford and John Quinn in 1923. Pound brought writers and patrons together.
When Sylvia Beach opened her Paris bookshop in 1919, she slept on a cot in the back room.
Sylvia Beach, founder of Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of
Ulysses.
James Joyce and Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company.
Harriet Shaw Weaver, Joyce’s patron and the publisher of the first UK edition of
Ulysses
, which was partially burned, and the second UK edition, which was entirely burned. Weaver’s association with Joyce scandalized her devout family.
Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he walked into Shakespeare and Company in 1921. The following year, he helped smuggle copies of
Ulysses
across the Canadian border.
Sylvia Beach and James Joyce (with mounting eye problems) at Shakespeare and Company in 1922.
Sir Archibald Bodkin, director of public prosecutions and British censor of
Ulysses
.
Morris Ernst, ACLU co-founder and Random House’s legal counsel. Ernst defended
Ulysses
as a “modern classic.”
© J. R. Eyerman/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
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