Mr. Andreas Brown "My Forty Years as Book Collector, Book Dealer

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Mr. Andreas Brown
"My Forty Years as Book Collector, Book Dealer, and Literateur"
Annual Winter Luncheon, Friends of the Malcolm A. Love
Library, SDSU
SIDE A
Introduction by Mr. Chuck Valvende,
Wahrenbrock's Book House:
owner of San Diego's
That was a very nice introduction,
introduction
by Ruth Brown,
having one book seller
violation
President).
introduce
of many, many federal
this to remain very confidential
thank you [speaking
But I must
another
book
regulations.
between
of
tell you that
seller
is a
So, I would
like
us here tonight.
[Laughter]
Mr. Andreas
life and business,
Book Mart which
English
Brown, who will speak to you shortly
is the proprietor,
is frankly,
speaking
world,
as you know, of the Gotham
in this country
the literary
on his
and possibly
in the
mecca.
Andy is a local San Diego boy, and as such, has come back
to his roots, to this great university
and has been really a
great benifactor
to it and to the San Diego Historical
and to San Diego
in general.
steal anymore
good friend,
Mr. Andreas
thunder,
please
Mr. Andreas
And so, while not attempting
join with me in welcoming
to
a very
Brown.
Brown
Thank you very much Chuck and President
sound of that, President
here.
Society,
After living
City, I suppose
Brown.
twenty-three
[Laughter]
Brown.
It is very nice to be
years in the middle
it is nice to be anywhere,
I like the
where
of New York
you can survive.
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[Laughter]
The topic that was suggested
the history
Frances
of the Gotham
Steloff,
Book Mart and its legendary
founder,
is a topic I could talk about for quite some
time, but I will try to confine
period
to me for this afternoon,
of time so that perhaps
my recollections
to a reasonable
we could have some questions
at
the end, if you have any.
To put everything
in proper
you a little brief biographical
it leads up to the subject
there.
I was born
attended
For years
I graduated
heroes
were Clarence
prominant
I had dreamed
people
every garage
for four years,
often made trips, whenever
book shop in Los Angeles,
century.
everywhere
I could afford
addicted
I attended
area of San
I
famous red barn in
to John Howell Books in
I knew all of these people
real bibliofile
to
to, to Glen Dawson's
to Jake Zeitlan's
I could put them: boxes
under my bed--a
I was very idealistic
book shop, Wahrenbrock's.
the same city, and even occassionally
in
Debs and other such
sale in the greater
much a part of my early education.
graduating
My childhood
I was also fatally
I grew up in Joe Hurwitz's
San Fransisco.
Book Mart and how I got
From as early as I can remember,
sale and estate
because
from Hoover High School and I
and Eugene
[Laughter]
about myself,
of being a lawyer.
of the twentieth
when I was young.
book collecting.
Darrow
I think I will give
and spent my early years in La
San Diego State University
1955.
Diego.
background
of the Gotham
in Coronado
Jolla and San Diego.
context,
and they were very
I had books stashed
in the garage,
from the earliest
in my closets,
days.
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Upon graduation
received
from San Diego State University,
a scholarship
to Stanford
Alto and it was a great adventure
University,
law.
was] after the Korean
member
I love Stanford
that I did not love the
War and prior to the Vietnam
older than I was
of my class at Stanford
them were accountants,
became
business
and they didn't
rather quickly
executives,
disenchanted.
doctors,
about
However,
staff of the United
And upon completing
teaching
position
my military
War, and a lot
Law School),
share my idealism
[This
(I was just about the
until my third year until I had an opportunity
judge advocate's
I went to Palo
I think, was with my classmates.
of them were considerably
people,
for me.
but I found out very quickly
My basic problem,
youngest
Law School;
I
States
obligation,
and many of
professional
the law.
So, I
I remained
there
to go into the
Army,
which
I did.
I was offered
here at San Diego State,
a
in the speech
department.
[As a student],
speech department
program,
years
in the debate and public
speaking
under the legendary
I couldn't
refuse.
three years.
American
I received
accepted,
those three years,
personal
literature,
University
John Ackley,
in the
and so it was an offer
I came to San Diego State and I taught
During
doing additional,
books.
here,
I had spent some wonderful
of Texas
research
I became
research
in their Humanities
and I stayed
there
midst of the most important
very involved
in
in the area of contemporary
which was an outgrowth
a very generous
for
grant
Research
for two years,
collection
of my interest
in
from the
Center,
finding
of rare books
which
myself
and
I
in the
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manuscripts
in modern American
I had a wonderful
two years,
further
independent
assist.
my researoh
researoh
[Who's Who in America:
Literature
and Curator
of that work,
American
literature.
I had as clients
collectors,
manusoripts
and the business
had fascinating
projects,
ranging
for Harvard
Governor
Pat Brown's
arohives
Such projects
Mart
were
in the work that I had.
in the east,
inviting
Steloff
knew.
refuse.
to come back to
in the field of appraising
and a focus on
institutions
in
and private
success.
from the cataloging
University,
fascinating
of John
Library,
at
to me and I waS very
It often took me to the east
very well aquainted
a trip there,
She never
with the Gotham Book
founder,
Frances
in 1967, she approached
me,
thing for Frances
left her book store, as far as anyone
And she said, "I am going to make you an offer you can't
I am going
slow down,
I
and I also did
for the Bancroft
me to lunch, which was an unusual
to do.
of
those trips to New York City and other points
I became
During
is
of the Collection
I decided
in New York City and its extraordinary
Steloff.
Gallup
was rather an immediate
manuscripts
And during
at Yale
and first editions
various
Updike's
coast.
This led to
Clifford
with an emphasis
contemporary
happy
Donald
and start my own business
rare books and manuscripts
Berkeley,
in bibliography.
there for
at Yale].
At the conclusion
California
in the world.
I remained
under Donald Gallup
prof. of Bibliography
American
anywhere
time, to say the least.
continuing
University
literature
to be eighty
just a little.
this year and I'm starting
And a lot of my clients
to
are worried
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about the future of the Gotham Book Mart and perhaps
too.
So I'd like you to consider
from me."
consider
Well this set me back.
of a wonderful
I wasn't
adventure,
we managed
In order to explain
perpared
to even
a business.
But I
so I accepted
in 1967.
to complete
what
her offer.
I
After a few
the sale and my
I was confronting
at that
I'd like to give you a little bit of a biographical
background
about Frances
Frances
Steloff.
was born in 1887, in Saratoga
She was the sixth child of fourteen
immigrant
family--she
who was very dedicated
in America.
scholar,
he was not, what you would call, a
meant they were very poor.
Frances'
mother
Her father immediately
to have more children.
Her
his holy books and doing a
But yet, he had a wife and many children,
three and a half.
New York.
in a Russian
Her father was a Talmudic
to studying
great deal of meditating;
man.
children
Springs,
was the first child born
family was very, very poor.
working
Book Mart
that this was just too much
and I moved to New York
of negotiating,
work began.
and decided
possible
closed my business
point,
the Gotham
living in New York City and running
gave it a lot of thought
months
buying
I should be,
Frances'
which
died when she was
remarried
father was a great
and continued
lover of
books, but they were so poor, the only books he had were his
religious
books and he kept them on a very high shelf in their
small home where no one could reach them.
Frances
told the
story, more than once, that if her father occasionally
drop one of these books,
book before
he picked
would
he would fall to his knees and kiss the
it up.
As was traditional
in these
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families,
books.
immigrant
families,
And each evening,
only the boys were taught
her father would
from the
take the one lamp they
had in their home and bring the boys over to the corner and he
would sit and teach them from the books.
the great metaphors
daughters
of Frances'
And I think it's one of
life that the mother
would sit in the dark in the corner watching
and the sons studying
eng rained
in Frances
and discussing
Her family,
the books.
a great reverence
book from these earliest
Springs.
and a fascination
by necessity,
Saratoga
took her from school when she
Springs
and watched
the Flower
Girl"
of flowers
to the wealthy
great hotels
to Saratoga
the races.
in Saratoga
of Saratoga
Frances
Springs.
patrons
making
hole of the
Springs
and they
known as "Fanny
She sold little bouquets
who sat on the verandas
Springs.
in
and the Whitneys
became
She started
age of seven and she was a very enterprising
quite successful,
market
was the watering
the Vanderbilts
their thorough bread horses
socialized
of the
years of her childhood.
rich, as many of you may know:
brought
the father
This, I think,
was very young and set her out into the employment
Saratoga
and the
a good deal of money
home to help with the family and the children
of the
doing this at the
young lady.
She was
that she brought
of the family
particularly.
She was also given the responsibility
her younger
brother.
sort of became
morning
And he became
his surrogant
to sell flowers,
of taking care of
very attached
mother,
to Frances:
and as she would leave each
he would follow her down the road and
she would have to shoo him back home.
she
Well he became
so
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persistent
as he grew older that eventually
would have to take him with her.
had ourly golden
He was a very attraotive
said that if the sun would
sort of a halo around
so much attention
substantially.
oajolery
couple
[Laughter]
if she thought
of the great hotels,
So she devised
a system
took a fancy to her brother
their was any possibility
century,
with many children,
prooedure.
proposal
and he said,
that her family would
it was not uncommon
[Laughter]
Well Frances
So Frances,
pioked
with great delight,
up on this.
and could
period
her foster mother
and to escape
Eventually,
and began to abuse her.
her very well for a
Frances
became
took what
an
little
she had, in a piggy bank, and snuck out at night and went
down to the dook, to the boat that would take her to New York
City,
I
who was less than kind to her, went off to Boston
who treated
savings
with this
that I can't have now?" And
with her new foster parents,
alooholic
of
for poor families,
I could go back to school,
have a dress and shoes and things
of time.
the beginning
"No, you can't have my son, but you can any
"Would this mean
her stepmother
and
and asked Frances
So her father was approached
one of my daughters."
they said, "Yes."
of bribery
to farm them out in a sort of informal
adoption
She said,
he
One day, a very wealthy
allow them to adopt him. In those days, before
the twentieth
that
that her sales increased
to get him to go every day.
on a porch,
his head.
little boy, and she soon disoovered
when she took him up on the verandas
attracted
that she
Well he was quite small and he
locks and Franoes
strike his head it would create
she decided
in order to find her older sister who lived on the
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outskirts
of Harlem.
of Harlem,
of fifteen,
The boat landed at the battery,
the foot of Manhattan
walked
Island,
at the foot
and Frances,
the full length of Manhattan
at the age
to Harlem
to find
her sister.
Eventually,
she started
way up to a position
store in Brooklyn.
finding
of some importance
During
had found a livlihood
She expanded
small catalogs
eventually
her activities
extra help.
beginning
in Brooklyn
heights,
in the window
at the Hotel Aster,
that said,
back to Brentanos
sign and how excited
Which
right back and rented
1st of 1920, Frances
opened
shop just off Times Square
district.
"You can't possibly
the shop. [Laughter)
on West 45th Street
success
and the artists
do
her that she
the Gotham Book Mart.
for all of the writers
She went
that she had seen the
so infuriated
It was an instant
along
It was a little sort
she was. And he said,
You are a woman."
And by
she was going to visit
of an old brownstone.
and told her boyfriend
and
she saw a little sign
"Shop for Rent."
of cubby hole in the basement
to do
job in Brentanos
of 1919, while walking
toward Times Square where
her sister who worked
mecca
in books,
in a fairly good paying
One day in December
West 45th Street
the theatre
they needed
got jobs in some of the better book stores.
Book Store.
marched
rush, they transferred
at last.
from her apartment,
1919, she was working
that.
because
her
in a large department
the Christmas
her over to the book department
And Frances
small jobs, working
On January
the
A little tiny
in the middle
and became
of her time.
a
of
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West
publishing
45th Street was also the center
industry,
as well, would
correspondent
her shop.
told on her hundredth
She said
birthday
to a New Yorker
her, was about two of her
"Two of my first and most frequent
were George and Ira Gershwin
the block.
in that business,
Two of her first customers,
who came to interview
first customers.
visitors
and so many of the people
frequent
the story Frances
of the music
who had a studio
They would work all morning
composing
songs and then
they would stop into the shop on their way to lunch,
would take things
right on
and they
out of my hand and make me sit down while
sang their latest song and ask for my critical
they
judgement."
[Laughter]
The shop was frequented
importance.
Claire,
Eugene
O'Neill
the famous actress
choreographer
by many other people
would come in frequently
of the day.
Ruth Saint Dennis,
in the field of dance and theater
began
to gain a reputation
literature
literary
first publish
Martha
Graham,
Frances
their work.
The shop
in experimental
focused
who were writing
the
many other people
came in as well.
of the day, that were called
where many of the writers
and Ina
In the dance field,
for specializing
and the avant-garde.
magazines
of
primarily
little magazines,
experimentally
And this, of course,
on the
would
drew more of them
to her shop.
In 1923, it was announced
Street was to be torn down,
47th Street,
followed
where
her there,
that the building
so Frances
it still remains.
John Dos Passos,
on West 45th
moved her shop to West
Most of her customers
H. L.Mencken,
Theodore
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Dreiser,
and many of the other writers
to this street and the store continued
In 1923, she married
advised
worked
[Laughter]
together
her
to expand.
David Moss, the friend who had
her that she shouldn't
a woman.
of the day followed
open a book store because
It meant a very rocky relationship,
she was
but they
in the store and the store prospered.
In 1925 and 1926, the store became very well known
because
of the people who were frequenting
Rudolph
Valentino
H.L. Mencken
used to meet there with Natasha
came
in with Dreiser
story that they had been drinking
autograph
all the books
wishes
from the author.
She began
overseas.
her frequently,
more.
customers
demanded
She eventually
they reached
all of her bibles
the religious
with best
orders and visits
from writers
James Joyce began to order books from
Ezra Pound.
She and David
The shop began to prosper
insisted
on carrying
and this included
a lot of books
They had to carry James Joyce's
in order to smuggle
it into the country,
in Paris to disassemble
signature
or gatherings
Lover
directly
customers
that were
Ulysses
arranged
and
for
the books and mail them by
Frances
from D.H. Lawrence
to smuggle
they
and when they arrived
would sew these back together.
more and
the books that their
baned at the time.
friends
to
[Laughter]
to receive
T. S. Elliot,
and
tells the
at lunch and decided
in the shop.[Laughter)
in which they inscribed
Rambova
one day--Frances
was able to stop them but not before
section
it more and more--
in New York they
ordered
Lady Chatterley's
in Italy, arranging
them in their luggage.
Later,
for
she was doing
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the same thing with the writings
in a good deal of problems
threats,
of Henry Miller.
with the authorities.
there were even arrests,
eventually
it led to the Gotham
some landmark
decisions
later in allowing
there were
There were
trials and
Book Mart and Frances
in censorship,
which played
winning
a major role
us to read what we want to read.
Eventually,
Frances
and David
get along and they were divorced
into a period
This resulted
found they really couldn't
in 1931.
And the shop moved
of hard times with the Depression.
Frances
said
that there were some days when not a single book was sold and she
worried
about the future of the store.
who had remained
had decided
to remarry,
in a drowning
an undertow
continue
friends
accident
through
their mutual
but unfortunately,
while attempting
at the beach.
to survive
By 1935, she and David,
But Frances
throughout
interests
in books,
David died tragically
to save some children
persisted
the Depression
and mananged
and moving
in
to
into
World War II.
During
had difficulty
World War II, the struggle
hiring
to war, and Frances
anyone;
literally
was acute because
most of the young men had gone off
became
at times a one-man
She would shovel the snow from the sidewalk,
handle
prepare
They were long and difficult
sometimes
difficult
the register,
nights,
do the bookkeeping,
but she managed
going,
in spite of all these difficulties.
period
of time a whole new wave of prominent
Christopher
Morley,
William
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band.
sweep the steps,
wrap the packages,
the mail.
she
Carlos Williams,
days and
to keep the store
She acquired,
over a
literary
customers:
Thornton
Wilder,
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Marianne
Moore.
Gertrude
Stein,
and Alice B. Toklas came to
visit when they came to America.
incident.
incidents
Mariann
Marianne
Moore reminds
me of an
I am not going to be able to tell many of the
I'd like to because
Moore,
there won't be time, but one day
who was still around when I came in 1967, called
the shop on a Saturday.
She was having
trouble with her plumbing.
Her sink was stopped
up and she wasn't able to get a plumber,
the Gotham Book Mart
sent a couple of clerks down to the building
to repair
her plumbing,
thing is not entirely
Frances
figures
which we did.
unusual
Steloff
avant-garde.
in many of the important
For instance,
introduced
Leon Edel the famous biographer
instituted
a life-long
Edith Sitwell
friendship
came to America
and corresponded
frequently
This kind of
at the Gotham Book Mart.
was a catalyst
of the literary
[Laughter]
so
between
to Edmond Wilson and
the two of them.
(she and Frances
when Frances
she
When
had met before,
would send her books),
Edith said that one of her dreams was to meet Edgar Stravinsky.
Well it just so happened
that Stravinsky
good friends
and she arranged
of Frances'
introduction.
Edith Sitwell
the Stravinsky
concert
introduction
and his wife Vera were
an immediate
and her brother
at Carnegie
were able to attend
Hall the very evening
was arranged.
Other interesting
people
gave a party for Jean Cocteau
that came to the shop--Frances
for the publications
books,
and Charlie
Chaplin
Miller
fled Europe
in 1940, he came to Frances
said,
that the
"Frances
I would
brought
of one of his
him to the party.
When Henry
desitute
and he
like you to put a sign up in the shop."
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The sign read "Henry Miller
small wagon,
and money."
a large cardboard
required
[Laughter]
box below
himself
I asked Frances
[Laughter]
Somebody
Georgia
O'Keefe
time and told Frances
entirley
She persisted
Mexico
gave him a small children's
it
wagon.
came into the store about this period
of
that she looked very tired and she had been
and convinced
met Frieda
what the small
into the wagon and pulled
too hard, and she thought
weeks to New Mexico
who was
and pick up his mail and he had to
go up a long road, so he put things
Frances
put the sign up with
"Well, he would go down to the
and buy his groceries
working
Frances
a
it and it soon filled up with all the
in Big Sur.
wagon was for and she said,
up.
wood axe, a thermos,
items and she sent them on to Henry Miller
establishing
highway
needs clothes,
Frances
for relaxation.
Lawrence
literary
community.
Another
incident,
she needed
a vacation.
that she should come
And during
for two
that trip,
and many of the people
in the New
It was one of the high points
of her
life.
an article
Frances
in the paper mentioning
insured her legs for one million
obviously.
Marlene
Dietrich;
that Marlene
dollars,
Dietrich
as a publicity
they were looking
had
stunt
the ladder and climbed
to get this book off a high shelf.
ordered
her and said,
section
and Marlene
up on this ladder trying
Frances
came rushing
her off the ladder and Noel Coward
"Do you realize
and
for a book and they didn't
They went over to the theatre
unfolded
immediately
was one day reading
A few days later into the store came Noel Coward
ask for help.
Dietrich
told about,
who you are talking
to?"
over and
turned to
And she
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said, "Yes, it's Marlene
are worth one million
Dietrich,
dollars
and I understand
and if she falls,
those legs
I will be sued."
[Laughter)
The motto at the Gotham
Book Mart is "Wise Men Fish
Here." And that sign hangs out over the front of the store and
has been the motto of the store for years.
interesting
people
to meet friends
And many wise and
have come to the store to look for books and
and to visit with their friend Frances
Steloff.
In 1965, when the book, Wise Men Fish Here was published
was Frances'
biography,
she received
and it had a considerable
survival.
Academy
arts.
benefit
publicity
to the shop's
In that same year she received
of Arts and Letters
the world
financial
the gold medal from the
for distinguish
And 1967, when she turned eighty
around
which
contribution
to the
years old, is the point
in her life when I enter the Gotham Book Mart.
As the new owner,
Gotham
control
I tried to bring a new vitality
Book Mart, but it wasn't
easy.
of the shop since it was founded
innovations
as air conditioning,
been born and raised
from her.
for me.
in California,
Eventually
[Laughter)
struggle.
upon, having
did not meet with approval
The Gotham Book Mart had no art gallery,
on the second
became
in 1920, and such
she came to like it, but it was a struggle
floor.
pleased
for many years, so I put in a
We put in more telephones,
in a larger staff and eventually
Frances
had been in
which I insisted
which had been a dream of Frances'
gallery
Frances
to the
it re-vitalized
with the progress,
we put
the store and
but at first it was a
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I began to specialize
authors'
libraries
in order to enhance
to some interesting
associations.
library of E.E. Cummings,
McCullers'
archives,
Pearlman,
in literary
Nathaniel
Edmund
and important
the business
We quickly
Wilson's
and we handled
West, Arthur
archives
acquired
library,
the archives
Miller
and this led
the
Carson
of S.J.
and Tennessee
Williams,
Joyce Carol Oates and many others.
The Gotham
its unique
clientel.
Norman Mailer,
Robert
Lowe
Frequent
John Updike,
[Lowell?],
Jacquelinen
Beckett
was an exciting
Onassis,
place
customers
Max Ernst, Alfred
W.H. Auden,
Woody Allen,
Noble prize winners
Samuel
and tell a story about Saul
He asked me if I would apraise
selling
This eventually
them or donating
led me to Chicago
few days at his apartment
in storage
there.
cataloging
And one afternoon,
in congratulations
I sat on the floor reading
remarks
he was
them to an institution.
and appraising
we discovered
things
he had
in the closet
that Saul Bellow
on receiving
had
the Noble Prize.
He and
these out loud to each other, with his
about some of the comments
that he never heard of in his entire
congratulations
his manuscripts;
where he lives, and I spent a
a large box of all the communications
caustic
Kazin,
Anais Nin,
and Saul Bellow.
considering
received
were J.D. Salinger,
Ezra Pound on occasion,
I think I will take a moment
Bellow.
to be in those days with
people make, people
career
in a way that would reflect
and personal
friends.
And it was amusing
Prize winner
revealing
some of his innermost
who were sending
him
that they were close
to hear this Noble
thoughts
about some
16
of these prominent
people.
of Chicago
campus
on Abraham
Lincoln,
fascination
to me.
and his various
Later we drove down to the University
and at that time I was doing a lot of reading
which was and still is a subject
And I mentioned
visits
to Chicago
Bellow's .expertise on Lincoln.
six months
Bellow's
events
in Lincoln's
still
Here
I was steeped
of Lincoln's
life was astonishing
be astonished,
Saul Bellow
I was very, very impressed.
and still are the important
about Lincoln
and I was astonished
and I felt like sort of an instant
recall of fine details
shouldn't
a few comments
of great
at Saul
in reading
expert,
for
and
life and obscure
to me.
I guess I
is an extraordinary
Experiences
man, but
such as that were
part of my life at the Gotham Book
Mart.
golden
Award
Frances
began
years.
The governor
for outstanding
of making
America
more and more honors
Frances
people.
in her home town.
an honorary
doctorate
for the Academy
Award.
birthday,
in 1987, she was honored
from an amazing
On Frances's
around
College
film was
It was later
one-hundredth
the world with letters
array of people
Helen Hayes, Katharine
among
that to
from Skidmore
life at the Gotham Book Mart.
"If
national
Book Mart would have to be numbered
nominated
Astor,
idea of identifying
And in 1967 a very fine documentary
made about Frances's
Vincent
statement:
liked that very much and often quoted
She received
and tributes
to the arts and in the course
he made the following
were to adopt the Japenese
the Gotham
in her
of New York gave her the Governor's
contribution
the presentation
treasures,
ours."
to receive
including
Hepburn,
Mrs.
Clara Boothe
Luce,
17
President
Reagan,
Her Congressman
the. New York Governor,
and the Mayor of New York City attended
birthday
party at the shop's gallery
Saratoga
Springs,
imagine,
Fanny the Flower
Skidmore
College
which amused
Throughout
had been fighting
Frances
these years,
she died at the age of a hundred
books
is probably
Steloff
fan club file].
contributions
the memorial
and secured
our
in the eighty-first
I think eighty-one
years of
in the [inaudible--possibly:
Paris, Rome, and Los Angeles.
on the editorial
culture.
for Frances
It's been a fascinating
Between
obituary,
The
but
page about her
Five hundred
people
in the New York Public
attended
Library
event.
twenty-three
am happy to have this opportunity
with you.
she won
upon her death were, again, world-
and it was indeed an inspiring
highlights
expense,
not only gave her a major tribute
to American
to save our
after she won that battle,
and one,
a record
in London,
tribute
What
[Laughter]
to Frances
they ran an editorial
at
it is too complex,
building,
as a book seller.
selling
New York Times,
"Just
1989, Frances
legal battle
because
In April of 1989, two months
wide in newspapers
doctorate
and tremendous
and saved the bookstore's
Tributes
She said,
from 1980 through
a long and difficult
year of her career
the key to
[Laughter]
I won't go into the details
the battle
greatly.
her
and now the key to the city.
but after nine years of struggle
future.
and she received
Girl has an honorary
in Saratoga
would my father say?"
building.
the New York Senator.
years for me, and I
to share some of these
the events
and the highspots
and
18
the notable
people,
hard work, which
there were many, many years of book selling-
is the part I think I like the best, and which
am happy to share with you.
happy to try to answer
If you have any questions,
I
I will be
them.
SIDE B
Andreas
Brown answering
a question
She was a terrible
section
of the book shelves
it approved
wanted
from Frances.
a certain
not the owner,
repainting
it.
If we
we had to get approval
"It's very important
that you know you are
you are only the caretaker
of the store."
She made that point very, very quickly
As the years went by, she mellowed,
administration,
she backed
paycheck
deposited
remained
active
Question
from the audience:
Williams'
to paint a
shade of blue I had to have
to a new location,
the store was going to be alright
Andreas
If I wanted
She sold me the store, but at the time she sold me
the store she said,
to it.
task master.
ahead of time or anticipate
to move anything
[Laughter]
not recorded:
and as she saw that
and would survive my
down a little bit.
to her account
and she stuck
But she had a
the week before
she died--she
with the store right until the very end.
What happened
to the Tennessee
manuscript?
Brown:
some research
What Dr. Kenney
I was doing when
is asking me about relates
I was still on the faculty
to
at San