Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Top 10 Books Written by Librarians
AbeBooks loves librarians.
Librarians love AbeBooks. (And we think everyone else loves librarians
too aside from the bean-counters who keep cutting their budgets.) This
email salutes those great lovers of books, literacy and reading - the
world’s librarian community - and we’re highlighting some wonderful
books written by librarians themselves.
Who but a person surrounded by books could be better qualified to write? Many an author has been born and developed in the stacks. The list does not feature the following librarian/writers - John Braine, Lewis Carroll, Archibald MacLeish, Nancy Pearl, Kit Pearson, Benjamin Franklin, Christopher Okigbo, Marcel Proust, and Ina Coolbrith - but we could easily have included their books.
Top 10 Books Written by Librarians
Who but a person surrounded by books could be better qualified to write? Many an author has been born and developed in the stacks. The list does not feature the following librarian/writers - John Braine, Lewis Carroll, Archibald MacLeish, Nancy Pearl, Kit Pearson, Benjamin Franklin, Christopher Okigbo, Marcel Proust, and Ina Coolbrith - but we could easily have included their books.
Top 10 Books Written by Librarians
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Less Deceived Philip Larkin The 1955 poetry collection that made his name - Larkin was a librarian at the University of Hull. |
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Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Her 1962 sci-fi/fantasy classic (rejected by many publishers) - L’Engle worked as a librarian in New York. |
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Aleph and Other Stories Jorge Luis Borges The Nobel Prize winner was a municipal librarian in Argentina - this 1949 collection is one of his best. |
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Big Man Thomas Berger This 1964 novel became a movie in 1970. Berger worked as a librarian and journalist. |
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Man’s Son Alice Mary Norton A post-apocalyptic tale from 1952 - Norton was a librarian in Cleveland and the Library of Congress. |
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Stealing Horses Per Petterson An ex-librarian AND bookseller, Petterson’s novel was one of the NY Times’ books of the year in 2007. |
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Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler This former librarian won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 with this novel. |
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Middle Age of Mrs Eliot Angus Wilson A librarian in the British Museum, Wilson’s 1958 novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. |
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Mrs Lippincote’s Elizabeth Taylor Taylor was a governess, teacher and librarian - At Mrs Lippincotes was her debut novel in 1945. |
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in the Snow Wallace Breem Breem was a legal manuscripts librarian in London - a Roman General is the hero of this historical novel. |
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