Edward Dahlberg, American Ishmael of Letters: Selected Critical Essays [Hardcover]

Harold Billings (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Roger Beacham Pub; First Edition edition (April 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0911796010
• ISBN-13: 978-0911796018
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,182,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Harold Billings has spent seventy years among libraries, books and book people. He served for twenty-five years as director of General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. In 2002 the American Library Association awarded him its annual Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award for his "long commitment to innovation in automation, resource sharing, and creative management." He received the 2006 Morley-Montgomery Memorial award from the Baker Street Irregulars for his essay, "The Materia Medica of Sherlock Holmes." He is the author of Magic and Hypersystems: Constructing the Information Sharing Library; M. P. Shiel: A Biography of His Early Years; M. P. Shiel: The Middle Years 1897 - 1923; Texas Beast Fables; A Bibliography of Edward Dahlberg; and editor of Edward Dahlberg: American Ishmael of Letters, among other books and award-winning bookish articles.