A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport by: Kate Stewart
Non-Fiction: Biography, E-book
I picked up this book as a book about a library was one of the reading prompts for the year. This book is not actually about a library but the life of an librarian. It starts out when the writer is introduced to role Ruth had in the history of the Library of Congress after her death. From there the author starts looking into her life. A life that started as a Jew born in Germany in the years before WWII. She then ended up escaping the Nazis as a teen, living in Europe until she could get to America. She later lived in Israel for a few years. She worked for the US military running libraries in Vietnam during the war and ended up at the Library of Congress. Through it all she left her mark on many people and on the way that libraries worked, working to add and change headings for subjects, making sure that books weren't censored, and other things.
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