The personal librarian

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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Murray is the fictionalized biography of Belle da Casta Greene, personal librarian to business tycoon, John Pierpont Morgan. Belle has a well guarded secret.

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Belle da Costa Greene, original name in full Belle Marion Greener, (born December 13, 1883, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died May 10, 1950, New York, New York), American librarian and bibliographer, the moving force in organizing and expanding the collection of J.P. Morgan as the Morgan Library. Greene was the daughter of lawyer Richard T. Greener, the first African American to graduate from Harvard and the first librarian of colour at the University of South Carolina, and Genevieve Fleet, both of…

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Book Review The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Murray the story of JP Morgan's Personal Librarian and her secrets