Description: With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.
Brief description: Stephen H. Grant, EdD, is the author of Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal. In addition to being a biographer he is a deltiologist, having produced three books on collecting vintage picture postcards in Guinea in West Africa, Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and El Salvador in Central America. He currently blogs on The Collation at the Folger Shakespeare Library and on his website, www.StephenHGrant.com.
Review Quotes: Grant's text is indeed well-researched and written, in a snappish and easily-readable style, even though there are many details.
--Jeffery Moser, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature