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Richard Holmes: Romantic Biographer
A pure writer, Richard Holmes is the author of literary biographies that have been praised for the sheer elegance of their prose, rivaling that of his literary subjects. Holmes defines biography in terms of Romance: “Biography, like love,” he says, “begins in passionate curiosity.” Sounds good to us!
Margery Sharp: Playing with Ink
Best remembered today for her Rescuers series, Margery Sharp was a well-established writer with the classic novels Cluny Brown and Britannia Mews—and many others less well known—to her credit before she began writing children’s books.
Ben and Me – And Me!
Did Benjamin Franklin’s brilliance come from the advice of a mouse named Amos who lived in a hole in the founding father’s dilapidated cap and whispered advice in the dullard’s ear? Well, no, but author/illustrator Robert Lawson had great fun with this conceit. And so did I as a boy and, many decades later, as an old man.
Editor’s Letter
Calendar & Catalogue Reports
Antiquarian Notes
Remembering Michael Thompson
Books into Film
“The Greatest Gift,” a story by Philip Van Doren Stern; It’s a Wonderful Life, a film produced and directed by Frank Capra