The library is always an interesting place, and Miss Pierce never at a loss to find something on subjects interesting. Saturday while discussing Edward Bo she ran across the following:
“The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch boy 50 years after” is the winner of the Pulitzer prize (1920) for the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people.
“This volume, published almost a year ago, apart from fiction, the most striking success in its first season and has steadily increased in popularity. It was found to have qualities of greater importance than mere interest, which resulted in its purchase by business men to distribute among their employes for the inspiration it gave to persistence and initiative; it was also soon found to have a romantic interest that gives a direct appeal to youth and it became also a book for boys. Its remarkable stories of literary men recommended it to people especially interested in literature, and its revelation of publishing and publicity methods made it valuable in the great advertising and publishing world.”
“Best autobiography of our time,” Lord Northcliffe.
“I rank it with Franklin’s Autobiography,” William Lyon Phelps.
“Is one of the most interesting American autobiographies which has been published for many years. New York Evening Post.
NEW FICTION
“Her Father’s Daughter,” by Gene Stratton Porter
“The Beloved Woman” by Kathleen Norris
“Helen of the Old House” by Harold Bell Wright
“Quin” by Alice Hegan Rice
“When Polly was Eighteen” by Emma C. Dowd
“Rainy Week” by Eleanor H. Abbott
From The Charlotte News, Sunday, Aug. 28, 1921. If you’d like to read “The Americanization of Edward Bok” it is available free of charge online at openlibrary.org/books/OL7186087M/The_Americanization_of_Edward_Bok.
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