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Sarah Childs's avatar

I have read both the Personal Librarian and The Other Einstein. Both great books. I have also been to the JP Morgan library in NYC where they currently have a whole exhibit on Belle De Costa Greene which was fascinating. I highly recommend Marie Benedict books as she concentrates of women in history that have been forgotten or not given their dues for their accomplishments. The Only Woman in the Room was a great book about Hedy Lamar who was definitely much more than a pretty face..

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Nava Atlas's avatar

Thank you for this interesting post! Many moons ago, I tried to write a novel about Victoria Woodull. I did so much research about her and her strange family, their involvement with Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Ward Beecher, etc., and the tumultuous post-Civil War era. It was all fascinating but a novelist I'm not; I don't have an ear for dialogue. There are quite a few nonfiction books about Victoria and her sister Tennessee, including Other Powers, The Scarlett Sisters, and Scandalous. She was, to put it mildly, complicated ...

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