Off the Shelf
What to Learn From Writers’ Personal Libraries
<p>Many famous authors’ personal book collections—Shakespeare, Fielding, Dickens—have been lost. Richard Oram, associate director of the Ransom Center, says we can learn a lot from these private libraries and looks at the case of writer Nancy Cunard. Plus, <a href="/content/dailybeast/galleries/2013/09/17/writers-and-their-libraries-what-books-did-david-foster-wallace-james-joyce-and-evelyn-waugh-own-photos.html">see photos</a> of some of the books once owned by David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, and others.</p>
Richard Oram