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Books by NYSL Members
Wednesday, January 1, 1997

Below, a partial section from the exhibition's timeline, which is a chronology from 1754 to 1937 of the city's history, publishing, books by member-authors and the Library's seven homes:

YEAR AUTHOR TITLE
1913Charles A. BeardAn economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
1915Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River anthology
1918Willa CatherMy Antonia
1923Norman ThomasThe Conscientious Objector in America
1925John Dos PassosManhattan transfer
1927Walter BrooksFreddy goes to Florida
1928Stephen Vincent Benet (trustee)John Brown's Body
1930W.H.AudenPoems
1932A.A. Berle, Jr.The modern corporation and private property
1934Lillian HellmanThe Children's Hour
1935Clarence DayLife with Father
1936Djuna BarnesNightwood
1937Eleanor RooseveltThis is my story
1937-1983Wilmarth S. Lewis (editor)The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence

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