The Delano Collection: Authors and Home Sites
This collection, donated by Dr. Phyllis J. Delano, features books about authors
and their homes from around the world. Dr. Delano ran the Human Resources Department
at Western Michigan University before training as a psychologist and working
in the corporate world for some fifty years. During her retirement, Dr. Delano
traveled to different author's homes around the world and gathered books about
the places in which they lived and worked.
An extensive portion of the collection features American and English authors.
A few of the authors represented in this collection include: Laura Ingles Wilder,
Ernest Hemingway, Hans Christian Anderson, James Joyce, and Mark Twain.
Some
of the titles include: Hemingway in Michigan, Faulkner's Mississippi, The
Writer's America, and Literary Washington . Also in this collection
are books entitled Round the World With Famous Authors, Paris: A Literary
Companion, and Literary By-Paths in Old England as well as Guide
to Literary London, all of which have been heavily annotated by their former
owner.
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