What Did Hemingway Read?

In 1919, Shakespeare & Co. opened in Paris as a bookstore and lending library. Books in English were expensive to buy, so  famous American expatriate writers, including Ernest Hemingway, borrowed books instead. According to this article in The Guardian, Hemingway borrowed more than 90 books, from P.T. Barnum’s autobiography to Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which he checked out for eight days in September 1929 – the year D.H. Lawrence’s novel first appeared in France, 30 years before it was published in the U.S. 

If Hemingway was late returning his books, he would receive this card with an image of exasperated Shakespeare himself.