Frances Steloff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1887
Place of Birth: Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Date of Death: 15-Apr-1989
Profession: bookseller
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Frances Steloff
- Ida Frances Stelov (December 31, 1887 – April 15, 1989), better known as Frances Steloff or Fanny, was the founder of the Gotham Book Mart in New York City, a center for avant-garde literature and literati from 1920 until it closed in 2007.Ida Frances Steloff was born to a poor family in Saratoga Springs, New York 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.
- Steloff then worked in several bookstores, and in 1920 founded the Gotham Book Mart.
- Steloff challenged government censorship, ordering smuggled copies of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the 1930s and purchasing shipments of D.
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- Lawrence's banned book Lady Chatterley's Lover in the late 1920s.Steloff married David Moss in 1923.
- They divorced in 1930.
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