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Major Authors & Celebrities Linked To The Store

Many notable authors, celebrities, and major figures involved in publishing were customers of the store and friends with the owners and staff. The Nobel Prize committee in Stockholm was known to order copies of books from the Gotham when they were considering various authors for the prize.

Authors & celebrities who frequented and shopped at the store:

  • Edward Albee
  • Woody Allen
  • W. H. Auden
  • Warren Beatty
  • Saul Bellow
  • Alexander Calder
  • Truman Capote
  • Dick Cavett
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Ina Claire
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Melora Creager
  • E.E. Cummings
  • Don DeLillo
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Buckminster Fuller
  • Abigail Folger (worked as a clerk at the Gotham)
  • Charles J. Fuhrmann
  • Allen Ginsberg (worked as a clerk at the Gotham)
  • John Guare
  • George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
  • Edward Gorey
  • Martha Graham
  • Lillian Hellman
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • LeRoi Jones (worked as a clerk at the Gotham)
  • James Joyce
  • Garson Kanin
  • Alison Lurie
  • Norman Mailer
  • H. L. Mencken
  • Arthur Miller
  • Henry Moore
  • Marianne Moore
  • Christopher Morley
  • David Nolan
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Anaïs Nin
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  • John Dos Passos
  • George Plimpton
  • Ezra Pound
  • Man Ray
  • Philip Roth
  • J. D. Salinger
  • Marian Seldes
  • Dame Edith Sitwell
  • Patti Smith Worked at the shop as a book clerk as detailed in her memoir Just Kids
  • Stephen Spender
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Roger W. Straus
  • Dylan Thomas
  • John Updike
  • Rudolph Valentino
  • Gore Vidal
  • Jose Garcia Villa
  • Andy Warhol
  • Thornton Wilder
  • Tennessee Williams (worked as clerk at the store, lasting less than a day)

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