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Happy 95th, Madeleine B. Stern! (Rare book dealer & Louisa May Alcott biographer)
Also known as Madeleine Bettina Stern, she lives in NYC.
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/stern.htm (brief bio) http://www.biblio.com/author_biograp...e_B_Stern.html (some covers and book descriptions) http://images.google.com/images?svnu...stern+auth or (covers & a few photos) On "Louisa May Alcott: A Biography": "First published in 1950, this biography of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) remains the standard work on the beloved American writer. Madeleine B. Stern, one of the world's leading Alcott scholars, shows how the breadth of Alcott's work, ranging from Little Women to sensational thrillers and war stories, serves as a reflection of a fascinating and complicated life dotted with poverty and riches alike, hard menial work, physical suffering relieved by opiates, and the acclaim of literary success." http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=us (Stern's 1991 lectu "Louisa May Alcott at Brigham Young University" - the other link is www.lib.byu.edu/lectures/alr/Stern/1991.pdf ) She had a very long friendship and literary partnership with the late Leona Rostenberg (they felt the need to make it clear, in the introduction to the 1997 book "Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion" that they were not a couple. Description: "They tell of finding rare treasures, of Rostenberg's discovery that Louisa May Alcott had published pseudonymous thrillers, of Stern's founding of the first Antiquarian Book Fair in the United States in 1960, and of Rostenberg's rise to the presidency of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America in 1972." ) http://www.thirteen.org/cityarts3/show9/uncutp.html (interview with Stern & Rostenberg - includes photo - excerpt: "You've been referred to as the Holmes and Watson of booksellers. I want to talk to you about the discovery of the book and that concept.") In "Contemporary Authors": "As a rare book dealer, Madeleine B. Stern specializes in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century volumes, published in French, Italian, Latin, and English; as a writer, she specializes in nineteenth-century Americana. Stern once commented, 'This dichotomy may lead to a split individuality, but it also leads to a very exciting life.' " AWARDS "Guggenheim fellowship, 1943-45; Medalie Award, Barnard College, 1982; American Printing History Association Award (with Leona Rostenberg), 1983; Distinguished Alumna Award, Barnard College, 1997." (She also attended Columbia University.) WRITINGS: The Life of Margaret Fuller, Dutton (New York, NY), 1942, 2nd edition, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1991. Louisa May Alcott, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1950, 2nd edition, 1971; Northeast University Press (Boston, MA), 1996. Purple Passage: The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1953, 2nd edition, 1970. Imprints on History: Book Publishers and American Frontiers, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1956. We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America, Schulte (New York, NY), 1963, revised edition, University of Nebraska Press (Norman, OK), 1994. So Much in a Lifetime: The Story of Dr. Isabel Barrows (juvenile), Messner (New York, NY), 1964. Queen of Publishers' Row: Mrs. Frank Leslie (juvenile), Messner (New York, NY), 1965. The Pantarch: A Biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1968. Heads and Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1971. (With Leona Rostenberg) Old and Ra Thirty Years in the Book Business, Schram (New York, NY), 1974, revised edition published as Old and Ra Forty Years in the Book Business, Modoc Press (Santa Monica, CA), 1988. Books and Book People in Nineteenth-Century America, Bowker (New York, NY), 1978. (With Leona Rostenberg) Between Boards: New Thoughts on Old Books, Allanheld & Schram (Montclair, NJ), 1978, 2nd edition, Modoc Press (Santa Monica, CA), 1989. (With Leona Rostenberg) Bookman's Quintet: Five Catalogues about Books, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 1980. Sherlock Holmes: Rare-Book Collector, Paulette Greene (Rockville Centre, NY), 1981. A Phrenological Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Americans, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1982. The Game's a Head: A Phrenological Case-Study of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, Paulette Greene (Rockville Centre, NY), 1983. Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1985. Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia, Franco-American Bookseller, 1776-1834, Philobiblon Club, 1988. (With Leona Rostenberg) Quest Book--Guest Book: A Biblio-Folly, Modoc Press (Santa Monica, CA), 1993. Studies in the Franco-American Booktrade during the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries, Pindar Press (London, England), 1994. (With Leona Rostenberg) Connections: Our Selves--Our Books, Modoc Press (Santa Monica, CA), 1994. The Feminist Alcott: Stories of a Woman's Power, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1996. (With Leona Rostenberg) Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 1996. (With Leona Rostenberg) Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1997. Louisa May Alcott: From Blood and Thunder to Hearth and Home, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1998. (With Leona Rostenberg) New Worlds in Old Books,Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 1999. (With Leona Rostenberg) Books Have Their Fates, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 2001. (With Leona Rostenberg) Bookends: Two Women, One Enduring Friendship, Free Press (New York, NY), 2001. (With Leona Rostenberg) From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing and Bookselling, 1501-2001, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 2002. L.M. Alcott: Signature of Reform, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 2002. (With Leona Rostenberg) Detection and Discovery, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE),2003. "Contributor of introduction to The Journals of Louisa May Alcott and Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, edited by Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1997. Contributor of articles on nineteenth- century American literature and Americana to scholarly journals." EDITOR Women on the Move, four volumes, DeGraaf, 1972. The Victoria Woodhull Reader, M & S Press, 1974. Louisa's Wonder Book: An Undiscovered Alcott Juvenile, Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI), 1975. Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, Morrow (New York, NY), 1975. Plots and Counterplots: More Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, Morrow (New York, NY), 1976. Publishers for Mass Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century America, G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1980. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1984. Louisa May Alcott, A Modern Mephistopheles [and] Taming a Tartar, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1987. (Coeditor) A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1988. (Coeditor) Freaks of Genius: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1991. From Jo March's Attic: Stories of Intrigue and Suspense, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1993. Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1995. "Also associate editor of The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1987; The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989; and Louisa May Alcott: Selected Fiction, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1990." Lenona. |
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Happy 95th, Madeleine B. Stern! (Rare book dealer & Louisa May Alcott biographer)
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Happy birthday, and thanks! |
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