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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]
Belle da Costa Greene, pastel portrait by Paul César Helleu, ca. 1913. [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.
Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and archivist, especially known for hoarding [1] [2] and archiving hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012, [2] [3] at which ...
The library where he worked as a children's librarian, Fairfield Civic Center Library, a branch of the Solano County Library in Solano County, California, is the same library he grew up patronizing. [4] [7] In 2013, Threets began working there at age 23, shelving books, and worked his way to becoming supervising librarian of his branch in ...
Famous people quotes about life. 46. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926) 47. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and ...
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 ...
Harriet Hardin: Assistant head librarian. She has a particular dislike of Cussy Mary, and finds every opportunity to humiliate her, such as designating the only bathroom in the library as "for whites only". Angeline Moffit: One of Cussy Mary's library patrons. 16 years old, and pregnant, she is married to Willie Moffit. She is one of the few ...
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