If you liked My friends the librarians by Catherine Drinker Bowen, start with The nature of the artist (1961), Hanji Hōmuzu monogatari (1977), and The writing of biography (1951). These recommendations are drawn from the same author, shared genres, and reader overlap on BookOrb.

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  1. 1 The nature of the artist 1961 · 19 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  2. 2 Hanji Hōmuzu monogatari 1977 · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  3. 3 The writing of biography 1951 · 31 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  4. 4 On libraries and reading 1960 · 7 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  5. 5 Biography: the craft and the calling 1969 · 174 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  6. 6 Olympien d'Amérique, le juge Holmes et sa famille 1945 · 464 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  7. 7 The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition 1985 · 846 pages · Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Paine, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Frederick Douglass, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emily Dickinson, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Sara Teasdale, John Crowe Ransom, Jean Toomer, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Lorraine Hansberry, Mona Van Duyn, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Galway Kinnell, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Ogden Nash, W. L. White, E. B. White, George Santayana, Frank C. Laubach, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg · Same author
  8. 8 Yankee From Olympus - Justice Holmes And His Family 2007 · 508 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  9. 9 The biographer looks for news 1958 · 15 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  10. 10 Yankee from Olympus. Edited and abridged by Bessie Charlotte Stenhouse 1956 · 491 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  11. 11 On being a biographer 1950 · 22 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author
  12. 12 Wo de yin yue sheng huo 2007 · 349 pages · Catherine Drinker Bowen · Same author

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What should I read after My friends the librarians?

BookOrb recommends The nature of the artist (1961), Hanji Hōmuzu monogatari (1977), The writing of biography (1951), On libraries and reading (1960), and Biography: the craft and the calling (1969).

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Who wrote My friends the librarians?

My friends the librarians is by Catherine Drinker Bowen.