Meanwhile, “The Personal Librarian” has now sold 1 million copies, Berkley announced. Published in 2021, the novel tells the story of J.P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene ...

“Harlem Rhapsody” is set a few years later than “Personal Librarian” and about 80 blocks northwest, in Harlem. The real-life folks who populate it include W.E.B. Du Bois, the writer and ...

"Librarians also enjoy much personal freedom in the workplace, to create projects, to dress as we wish, and to occasionally have flexible work schedules." One perk of a career as a librarian is ...

President George Washington's personal copy of "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is among the rare books preserved by the Boston Athenaeum. But how these books — and more than a hundred others kept ...