Penn Gets Gotham's Books
About 200,000 items from the Gotham Book Mart, which closed in 2007 after 87 years as a New York literary haven of international stature, have been donated to the University of Pennsylvania.
An anonymous donor purchased the store’s inventory and donated it to the university.
There are books from the personal libraries of Truman Capote and Anaïs Nin, as well as items signed by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Robinson Jeffers, Woody Allen, Wallace Stevens and John Updike.
The Gotham Book Mart was founded on West 45th Street in 1920 by Frances Steloff. Its customers included George and Ira Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Katharine Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
For the full story, go to The New York Times.
An anonymous donor purchased the store’s inventory and donated it to the university.
There are books from the personal libraries of Truman Capote and Anaïs Nin, as well as items signed by Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Robinson Jeffers, Woody Allen, Wallace Stevens and John Updike.
The Gotham Book Mart was founded on West 45th Street in 1920 by Frances Steloff. Its customers included George and Ira Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Katharine Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
For the full story, go to The New York Times.
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