For our next Yale Club of Vermont Book Club, we are reading The Personal Librarian, historical fiction by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, daughter of the first African-American graduate of Harvard. Hiding her racial identity to be hired by Morgan, Greene becomes a fixture in the New York book and art world, and leaves a lasting legacy — the collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork of the J.P. Morgan Library.  Thanks to Elaine Gustafson for this timely suggestion.  There is currently an exhibition of some of the prize manuscripts of the library — including Gutenberg bibles — on exhibition at the J.P.Morgan Library, through January 2024.  And next year, the Library will open an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Belle da Costa Greene herself.  Happy Reading! Click here to register.