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The Personal Librarian was a top book club pick in November 2021, [3] March 2022, [4] and April 2022. [5] In 2021, the book was named a "Favorites of Favorites" by Library Reads, [6] as well as one of Booklist's top ten historical fiction novels. [7] It was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. [8]
The Personal Librarian, co-authored by Victoria Christopher Murray and published in 2021 by Berkley Books, is a fictionalized biography of Belle da Costa Greene's life as the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and the first director of the Morgan Library & Museum. The Personal Librarian received starred reviews from Booklist [12] and Library ...
[1] Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .
The librarians featured by Snyder have been subjected to verbal harassment and threats of physical harm. The documentary brims with women who are willing to put themselves on the line, facing ...
Helen Elizabeth Haines (1872–1961) was a writer, reviewer, teacher and lecturer. [1] She was instrumental in the development of the library science profession, though she herself never worked as a librarian or earned a professional degree.
At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the novel received a cumulative "Positive" rating based on 18 reviews, with only five "mixed" reviews. [3] Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, deemed it "a quietly effective and moving character study." [4]
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Vicki Myron (born 1947) is an American author and librarian. [1] Director of the Spencer Public Library for more than 20 years, she is best known for her book Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, co-written with Bret Witter. It sold more than one million copies internationally and was on bestseller lists for more than six ...