Edmund Lester Pearson
The Secret Book
Paperback
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Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was an American librarian and author. From 1906 to 1920 he wrote a weekly column, The Librarian, for the newspaper, the Boston Evening Transcript. The column consisted of humorous essays and stories. The stories often featured the fictional Ezra Beesly Free Public Library of the town of Baxter, as well as other fictional persons and places. He published some of his columns from the Librarian in The Secret Book. The Secret Book is composed of fictional short stories by this master story teller all written about "The Secret Book," a book which seems to appear and disappear at will leaving a trail of disaster whenever it appears.