Book Review: The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian is based on the true story of Belle da Costa Green, a fair-skinned Black woman who passed for white during the early 1900s and became the personal librarian to financier J.P. Morgan.
It’s a pretty wild story!
It’s a really great read. I don’t care for fiction that much, but I did like this book!
The story also reminded me of The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe, which was also about a passing Black woman who worked for the Boston Public Library.
Here is an interview with the authors.