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  2. The Personal Librarian - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Belle da Costa Greene - Wikipedia

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    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's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan, and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Despite being born to Black parents ...

  4. Heather Terrell - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. A Secret Affair with W.E.B. Du Bois Is Explored in Upcoming ...

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    Murray is the co-author of bestselling novels The Personal Librarian, which was a NPR Best Book of the Year and a Good Morning America Book Club pick, and The First Ladies with Marie Benedict, a ...

  6. Victoria Christopher Murray - Wikipedia

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    Education. Hampton University (BA) New York University Stern School of Business (MBA) Notable works. The Personal Librarian (2021) Notable awards. NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction (2016) Victoria Christopher Murray is an American editor and author of over 30 books, with "more than one million books in print." [1]

  7. Librarian criticized book bans and faced a barrage of hate ...

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    In her forthcoming book, “That Librarian” (Bloomsbury, $29.99), Jones shares what came next: a sustained barrage of bizarre and erroneous social media posts about her, death threats, a leave ...

  8. Nancy Pearl - Wikipedia

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    Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. [1] Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears ...

  9. Private library - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Private libraries are libraries that are privately owned and are usually intended for the use of a small number of people, or even a single person. As with public libraries, some people use bookplates – stamps, stickers or embossing – to show ownership of the items. Some people sell their private libraries to established institutions ...

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