The Moneyed Muse
The New Yorker
Feb. 12, 2007
By Dana Goodyear
This profile of Ruth Lilly observes that her father, a major collector of rare books, in 1954 founded the Lilly Library at Indiana University, when he donated his 20,000 volumes and 17,000 manuscripts.
Read the entire story at: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_goodyear
More information about The Lilly Library can be found at: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/
