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Kramer was born in Cambridge, Mass. and was raised in Lexington and Brookline. His parents met in 1933 at Harvard Summer School, were married a year later, and became booksellers in the store his father founded...
...Kramer’s family opened their store in the midst of the Great Depression on what is now John F. Kennedy Street, in the spot now occupied by Urban Outfitters. His father borrowed $300 from his grandfather to found the company, Kramer says...
...Harvard Book Store] with my father, waiting to go to lunch,” he says. “My father was in conversation, and I wanted to go. Then this guy came up to me and said, ‘Do you have Kant’s ‘Prolegomena?’ It scared the hell...
...year management of the Harvard Book Store, which his father founded in 1932, that has garnered him the most attention...
...When I came into the business, I was 20; my father had died unexpectedly,” he says. “I was a BU student—they were not treated very well at bookstores. If you wanted a textbook, who else had it, apart from a college store...