Word: librarian
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...Patricia Gray, the head of the library's Poetry and Literature Center, describes the laureateship as an "iconic" position. It is the highest honor for a poet in this country, bestowed by the Librarian of Congress, who consults with former laureates, the current laureate and poetry critics in making his choice. It is the only government office for a literary artist that is not federally funded. It is an academic-year position (October to May), but poets may extend their term if they choose. The perks include a $35,000 stipend, a $5,000 travel allowance, cultural cachet...
...summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there will present his discovery of versions of the prayer unattributed to Niehbuhr from as early...
Every once and a while, however, Harvard College Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf would allow Radcliffe girls to visit at special hours for “inspection tours...
...Lahiri is the most critically praised member of America's rising literary generation. Born in London to Bengali parents, she grew up in Rhode Island, where her father was (and is) a librarian. She went to Barnard, then moved to Boston to work in a bookstore and collect master's degrees and generally figure herself out. "I sometimes wonder, If I'd not gone up to Boston for those years, would I have written fiction?" she says. "In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, Who am I to dare...
...country. The Vogels’ collection includes works of more than 170 contemporary artists. Among the artists whose works will be sent to HUAM are Michael Goldberg, Edda Renouf, Richard Tuttle, and Stephen Antonakos. Herbert Vogel, 85, a retired postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, 73, a retired reference librarian, told The Austin Chronicle, “we bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment.” The couple began collecting art in the 1960s and started lending pieces to HUAM in the early 1970s. The couple’s first contribution was a collection...