Bruce Whiteman: Neilly Series Lecture

Bruce Whiteman: Neilly Series Lecture

2003-03-27

Whiteman has published extensively as a poet and reviewer, and has written a number of books about bibliography, printing and literary history. He is the author of Visible Stars: New and Selected Poems and he co-edited the recent catalogue The World from Here: Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles (2001). He is currently working on a book about Constantine Simonides, the 19th-century manuscript forger. He is Head Librarian at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, which specializes in 17th and 18th-century literature, and is an avid book collector. His presentation, "The Forger as Male Head Case: Constantine Simonides and Some Other Rogues" is accompanied by slides.

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