Abstract Frances Wood was a librarian at the Grand Rapids Public Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In late July 1939, and again in July 1942, she sent questionnaires to contemporary Michigan authors who had produced a work of 40 pages or more. With the questionnaire she sent a request for a photograph, and a letter in which she described her intention of using the information to compile a volume on Michigan authors. This collection contains the biographical information and photographs collected....

Abstract

The Grand Rapids Authors’ Night collection consists of biographic, bibliographic and photographic data on living (in 1934-1935) authors whose works were in the Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Criteria for inclusion was that the author had to have resided in Grand Rapids or the work had to take place in or be about Grand Rapids. The source of the materials included is this collection is unknown, and documents only a small segment of Grand Rapids authors.