Betty Smith’s Library at the Time of Her Death
(A Selection of Titles)
Gentle Youth by Robert Finch
Oneipa (Greek)
The Astronomer by Doris Betts
Better Homes and Gardens (Garden Books)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Last Flower by James Thurber
Who’s Who (Vol. 34, 1966–67)
Bible (belonging to Joe Jones)
Funk and Wagnalls (synonyms)
Redemption and Other Plays by Leo Tolstoy
Tar: A Midwest Childhood by Sherwood Anderson
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Vol. 1 and 2)
Everybody Sing Songbook (Clark)
How to Read Better and Faster (Lewis)
The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Princess Marries the Page by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nostromo by James Conrad
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
The Human Beast by Emile Zola
Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
It’s a Great Life by Robert Finch
Stuart Little in the Schoolroom by E. B. White
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
How to Make Good Movies
The Fall by Albert Camus
Detail from Betty Smith’s notecards