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Heather O’Donnell

Heather O’Donnell is the owner of Honey and Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn. (May 2025)

Ambition, Discipline, Nerve

Ambition, Discipline, Nerve

The qualities that enabled Belle da Costa Greene to cross the color line were the same ones that made her a formidable negotiator and collector for J. P. Morgan’s library, which she led for over twenty years.

Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy

an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, October 25, 2024–May 4, 2025

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Belle Greene

by Alexandra Lapierre, translated from the French by Tina Kover

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters

by Deborah Parker

May 15, 2025 issue

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