Six Young Women with Prize-Winning Book Collections
by Nadja Spiegelman
Sep 19, 2017
3 minutes
Imagine a book collector, a person who has devoted their life to seeking out rare tomes in dusty shops, who arranges their finds, these prized possessions, purposefully and carefully, on a shelf just out of reach. Chances are you will have imagined a man, perhaps one with graying hair and spectacles. And a pipe.
Heather O’Donnell and Rebecca Romney at Honey & Wax Booksellers, in Brooklyn, are hoping to broaden our imaginative capabilities. This summer, they , open to women under thirty. O’Donnell and Romney had observed that although the young women who entered
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