Your booksellers

Stuart Ferguson

Stuart has been a Shakespeare customer and employee on and off for many years. Decades ago he worked at the art bookstore Rizzoli, in New York, as well as at Cyrano's Bookshop here in Highlands. In between he has worked in advertising, journalism and local history. In 2000, Stuart wrote the first (the only?) review of a pornographic photo-book to appear in The Wall Street Journal, Natacha Merritt's "Digital Diaries."

co-owner/ manager

Katherine Willoughby

Katherine founded our bookstore in 1999. She worked at the Shakespeare & Co. in Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, and lived above the store, just like in Highlands. She became great friends with George Whitman, who re-founded the American literary institution after the Second World War. It was Mr. Whitman who told Katherine she should name *her* bookstore in Highlands after *his* in Paris. Katherine keeps up with the newest in fiction, but her favorite book is "Stoner," the 1965 novel by John Williams (it's not about what you're thinking it's about).

Founder and co-owner

Rosemary Fleming

Rosemary Edwards Fleming is a native Highlander who lives on the same land her family farmed in the 19th century. She worked at Cyrano's Bookshop for many years, and before that was involved with the Jacob's Pillow summer dance festival in the Berkshires. Rosemary loves books on nature and local history and can be spotted walking around town with her sweet and rambunctious Husky, Mishka.