Showing posts with label Librarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Librarian. Show all posts

Sunday, November 9, 2025

Born on this day – Burton E. Stevenson:


Burton E. Stevenson


Writer

Anthologist

Librarian

November 9, 1872 – May 13, 1962

Credits:

Books:

A king in Babylon (1917); A soldier of Virginia (1901); Affairs of state (1906); American history in verse for boys and girls (1960); American men of mind (1913); At odds with the regent (1905); Cadets of Gascony (1904); Great Americans as seen by the poets (1933); Poems of American history (1922); The charm of Ireland (1914); The clue of the red carnation (1942); The Destroyer (1913); The girl from Alsace (1915); The girl with the blue sailor (1906); The gloved hand (1920); The heritage (1902); The Holladay case (1904); The home book of Bible quotations (1949); The home book of modern verse (1960); The home book of proverbs, maxims, and familiar phrases (1959); The home book of quotations (1934); The home book of verse (1912); The house next door (1932); The kingmakers (1922); The Marathon mystery (1904); The mystery of the Boule cabinet (1911); The mystery of Villa Aurelia (1932); The path of honor (1910); The quest for the rose of Sharon (1909); The red carnation (1939); The spell of Holland (1911); The young section-hand (1905); The young train dispatcher (1907); The young train master (1909); Tommy Remington's battle (1902).

Movies and television:

In the Next Room (1930); On Dangerous Ground (1917); Paying the Price (1916); The Case of the Black Parrot (1941); The Pursuing Vengeance (1916).

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:


Lawrence Clark Powell


Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).