LIBRARY NOTES
New Trustees
Wednesday, June 1, 1994
Three new trustees, Margaret Mather Byard, Robert A. Caro, and Jenny Lawrence were elected at the Annual Meeting.
Margaret Mather Byard, a literary historian, was born in Glasgow of Scottish parents, but her residence and education have been in the United States. She received her B.A. from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Columbia University and has taught at Douglass Rutgers and the School of General Studies at Columbia. Her publications follow her interests in 17th century arts, sciences, and literature. She remembers, in 1937, wheeling her oldest child in a perambulator to the Library's new site at 53 East 79th Street. She has been chairman and organizer of the Visitor's Committee since it's inception in 1991.
Robert A. Caro, historian and biographer, was born in New York City and graduated from Princeton in 1957. He began professional life as a reporter on a New Jersey newspaper and later moved to Newsday. He became a Neiman fellow at Harvard in 1965-66. His biography,
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Francis Parkman prize of the Society of American Historians. He is presently working on the third volume of
The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Caro is a board member and past president of the Authors Guild of America and a past vice president of PEN American Center.
Jenny Lawrence is the book review editor of Natural History magazine. She has lived in New York since 1969 and has been a Library member since 1970. A production editor in the college department of Harper & Row and St. Martin's Press until 1973, she then worked for five years at the New-York Historical Society on special projects, including the papers of Revolutionary War General Horatio Gates. A graduate of University of California at Berkeley, she recently received an M.A. in journalism from New York University.
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