J.P. Morgan’s librarian hid her race. A novel imagines the toll on her.
Some books leave you wondering why the author has chosen to tell this particular story, and why now. This is emphatically not the case with “The Personal Librarian,” a novel about the woman who helped shape the Morgan Library’s spectacular collection of rare books and art more than a century ago. It quickly becomes clear why two popular authors, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, have teamed up to tell this important, inspirational story.
Belle da Costa Greene’s success in the almost exclusively male world of art and rare book dealers was an unusual feat
