Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01IQ0TE0W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 346 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before - but Kenyon refused to let this happen.. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past 10 years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye - Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works
Bibliophiles, hide your children The Bruno Hauptmann of rare books lives! This is a grim reminder of broken humanity and betrayed trust in an otherwise peaceful college village and a mortal blow to their own "Smithsonian" collection.. Five Stars Sara Sampson I really enjoyed this book. It's well written and on a topic near and dear to my heart.. Five Stars A fascinating and scary situation. This should be read by everyone involved with libraries and/or with authors' estates.