“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos...
Category - Authors & Illustrators
Dorothy Whipple: A Novelist of True Importance
In conjunction with the Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair in September 2022, Maggs Bros. Ltd in...
Collecting Edgar Allan Poe: Rare Books and First Editions
The life of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was only forty years old when he mysteriously died on...
Collecting Cormac McCarthy: America’s Great Living Writer
Author Cormac McCarthy was born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr, on July 20th, 1933, in Providence...
A Positive Obsession: Collecting the Works of Octavia Butler
June 22, 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of writer Octavia Butler. Although she...
Collecting Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series
Although it was originally planned as a six-book series, Robert Jordan’s epic The Wheel...
Zelda Fitzgerald – the first American flapper
Zelda Fitzgerald was born Zelda Sayre on July 24, 1900, in Montgomery, Alabama. She was known for...
Clive Cussler – American author and explorer
Born July 15, 1931, Clive Cussler was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer...
Toni Morrison – A Life Through Language
I first read Toni Morrison as an undergraduate, with Song of Solomon in Dr. Anissa Wardi’s classes...