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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wright was born on March 1, 1899, in Greenwood County, South Carolina. Both of his grandfathers served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War; his paternal grandfather served under James Longstreet, and his maternal grandfather under Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.<ref>Charles Frederick Hard, Louis B. Wright: A Bibliography and an Appreciation (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968), page 3.</ref> In the 1910s, Wright matriculated at Wofford College, but swiftly enlisted in the Student's Army Training Corps, and served for at least sixth months in Plattsburgh, New York, during the First World War. At war's end, he and a veteran of the Army Air Corps worked on government contract as airmail pilots. He soon returned to Wofford to complete his studies, and graduated in 1920 with a B.A. in chemistry and a minor in biology. He then became a reporter for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a local South Carolina newspaper</del>.<ref>Hard 1969, pages 10-11.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wright was born on March 1, 1899, in Greenwood County, South Carolina <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to Thomas Fleming Wright, a schoolteacher, and Lena Booker Wright</ins>. Both of his grandfathers served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War; his paternal grandfather served under James Longstreet, and his maternal grandfather under Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.<ref>Charles Frederick Hard, Louis B. Wright: A Bibliography and an Appreciation (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968), page 3<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ref> Among the reading material Wright enjoyed as a child were fairy tales and the works of Livy.<ref>Suzanne Krebsbach, "Louis B. Wright," ''Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 17, Twentieth-century American historians'', 1983, 484</ins>.</ref> In the 1910s, Wright matriculated at Wofford College, but swiftly enlisted in the Student's Army Training Corps, and served for at least sixth months in Plattsburgh, New York, during the First World War. At war's end, he and a veteran of the Army Air Corps worked on government contract as airmail pilots. He soon returned to Wofford to complete his studies, and graduated in 1920 with a B.A. in chemistry and a minor in biology. He then became a reporter for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ''Spartanburg Herald''</ins>.<ref>Hard 1969, pages 10-11.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Not fully satisfied as a reporter <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </del>the ''Spartanburg Herald'', Wright abandoned journalism in 1923 for a position as a teaching assistant in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Master's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1926.<ref>Hard 1968, pages 13-15.</ref> Wright wrote his dissertation on elements of vaudeville in Elizabethan drama.<ref>Louis B. Wright, ''Of Books and Men'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976), page 18.</ref> He continued teaching at Chapel Hill until 1928, when he and his wife, Frances (née Black), moved to London upon his reception of a Guggenheim Fellowship to study English drama before 1642.<ref>"Louis Booker Wright," Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/louis-booker-wright/.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Not fully satisfied as a reporter <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after leaving </ins>the ''Spartanburg Herald<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' for the ''Greenwood Index-Journal</ins>'', Wright abandoned journalism in 1923 for a position as a teaching assistant in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Master's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1926.<ref>Hard 1968, pages 13-15.</ref> Wright wrote his dissertation on elements of vaudeville in Elizabethan drama.<ref>Louis B. Wright, ''Of Books and Men'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976), page 18.</ref> He continued teaching at Chapel Hill until 1928, when he and his wife, Frances (née Black), moved to London upon his reception of a Guggenheim Fellowship to study English drama before 1642.<ref>"Louis Booker Wright," Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/louis-booker-wright/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ref> The book that resulted from this fellowship, [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=17849 ''Middle Class Culture in Elizabethan England''], was published in 1935. Upon completing his research in London, Wright returned to teach at Chapel Hill. He remained there until 1932, though he spent the previous year as a visiting scholar at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. In 1932, he officially joined the Huntington staff.<ref>Krebsbach 1983, page 485</ins>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions. Under Wright, the Folger also began a publishing program for staff, the ''Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization''.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 136-137.</ref> This series of short pamphlets allowed staff members to publish research based on their work and interests; wide-ranging topics included Elizabethan travel, Elizabethan gardens, the Spanish Armada, and interactions between Dutch and English culture of the period. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, known as ''The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare''</ins>. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions. Under Wright, the Folger also began a publishing program for staff, the ''Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization''.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 136-137.</ref> This series of short pamphlets allowed staff members to publish research based on their work and interests; wide-ranging topics included Elizabethan travel, Elizabethan gardens, the Spanish Armada, and interactions between Dutch and English culture of the period. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After his retirement from the Folger in 1968, Wright continued to serve in a variety of organizations as advisor and board member, including the Modern Language Association and the National Geographic Society. He was a trustee for the Harry S. Truman Institute for National and International Affairs, and spoke in 1955 at a Cleveland, Ohio fundraiser for the development of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After his retirement from the Folger in 1968, Wright continued to serve in a variety of organizations as advisor and board member, including the Modern Language Association and the National Geographic Society. He was a trustee for the Harry S. Truman Institute for National and International Affairs, and spoke in 1955 at a Cleveland, Ohio fundraiser for the development of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. From 1950-1971, he was chairman of the advisory board of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the death of [[Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr.]], the Library's first director in 1946, the Amherst Board of Trustees approached Wright in 1947 as a candidate for the directorship. He officially began work at the Library until July 1, 1948. Wright made a multitude of administrative changes to the Library. He removed a barrier to the entrance of the reading room, permitting easier access to readers, and removing Library guards of their arms. Wright hired Eleanor Pitcher to organize the Library's acquisitions. He and Pitcher continued [[Henry Clay Folger|Henry Clay Folger's]] practice of paying booksellers immediately for purchases; prompt payment of bills generated positive relationships with booksellers and gave the Folger an advantage over other competitive buyers whose bills took longer to process.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 131-132.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the death of [[Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr.]], the Library's first director in 1946, the Amherst Board of Trustees approached Wright in 1947 as a candidate for the directorship. He officially began work at the Library until July 1, 1948. Wright made a multitude of administrative changes to the Library. He removed a barrier to the entrance of the reading room, permitting easier access to readers, and removing Library guards of their arms. Wright hired Eleanor Pitcher to organize the Library's acquisitions. He and Pitcher continued [[Henry Clay Folger|Henry Clay Folger's]] practice of paying booksellers immediately for purchases; prompt payment of bills generated positive relationships with booksellers and gave the Folger an advantage over other competitive buyers whose bills took longer to process.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 131-132.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Wright, air conditioning was installed in the building in 1948, an essential change to the hot and stuffy reading room (now the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room). Rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century volumes stored in the reading room were moved down to the vault and replaced with reference works; previously, scholars in need of reference works used those available at the nearby Library of Congress. Wright also shifted the Folger's classification system from one designed specifically for the Library by Edwin Willoughby to the Library of Congress classification system.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 134-135.</ref> Horace Groves and Robert Lunow were hired to direct the photography and conservation departments, respectively.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Under Wright, air conditioning was installed in the building in 1948, an essential change to the hot and stuffy reading room (now the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room). Rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century volumes stored in the reading room were moved down to the vault and replaced with reference works; previously, scholars in need of reference works used those available at the nearby Library of Congress. Wright also shifted the Folger's classification system from one designed specifically for the Library by Edwin Willoughby to the Library of Congress classification system.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 134-135.</ref> Horace Groves and Robert Lunow were hired to direct the photography and conservation departments, respectively. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1959, a new wing was constructed, adding office space, new stacks, and conference and seminar rooms.<ref>Hard 1968, page 42.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During his tenure, the first full-length performance of shakespeare in the Elizabethan theater occurred. In 1949, the Amherst Masquers performed ''[[Julius Caesar]]'' on April 3, 1949 in a telecast performance funded by NBC. During the play's intermission, Wright gave commentary, along with the current president of Amherst College, Charles W. Cole.<ref>Stephen H. Grant, ''Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), page 194.</ref> The performance proved legally troublesome, as it violated a variety of Washington, D.C. fire code and zoning laws; subsequently, Wright used the space only for lectures and small musical events.<ref>Wright 1976, page 141.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions. Under Wright, the Folger also began a publishing program for staff, the ''Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization''.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 136-137.</ref> This series of short pamphlets allowed staff members to publish research based on their work and interests; wide-ranging topics included Elizabethan travel, Elizabethan gardens, the Spanish Armada, and interactions between Dutch and English culture of the period. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions. Under Wright, the Folger also began a publishing program for staff, the ''Folger Booklets on Tudor and Stuart Civilization''.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 136-137.</ref> This series of short pamphlets allowed staff members to publish research based on their work and interests; wide-ranging topics included Elizabethan travel, Elizabethan gardens, the Spanish Armada, and interactions between Dutch and English culture of the period. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wright was born on March 1, 1899, in Greenwood County, South Carolina. Both of his grandfathers served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War; his paternal grandfather served under James Longstreet, and his maternal grandfather under Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.<ref>Charles Frederick Hard, Louis B. Wright: A Bibliography and an Appreciation (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968), page 3.</ref> In the 1910s, Wright matriculated at Wofford College, but swiftly enlisted in the Student's Army Training Corps, and served for at least sixth months in Plattsburgh, New York, during the First World War. At war's end, he and a veteran of the Army Air Corps worked on government contract as airmail pilots. He soon returned to Wofford to complete his studies, and graduated in 1920 with a B.A. in chemistry. He then became a reporter for a local South Carolina newspaper.<ref>Hard 1969, pages 10-11.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wright was born on March 1, 1899, in Greenwood County, South Carolina. Both of his grandfathers served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War; his paternal grandfather served under James Longstreet, and his maternal grandfather under Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.<ref>Charles Frederick Hard, Louis B. Wright: A Bibliography and an Appreciation (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968), page 3.</ref> In the 1910s, Wright matriculated at Wofford College, but swiftly enlisted in the Student's Army Training Corps, and served for at least sixth months in Plattsburgh, New York, during the First World War. At war's end, he and a veteran of the Army Air Corps worked on government contract as airmail pilots. He soon returned to Wofford to complete his studies, and graduated in 1920 with a B.A. in chemistry <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and a minor in biology</ins>. He then became a reporter for a local South Carolina newspaper.<ref>Hard 1969, pages 10-11.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Not fully satisfied as a reporter, Wright abandoned journalism in 1923 for a position as a teaching assistant in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Master's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1926.<ref>Hard 1968, pages 13-15.</ref> He continued teaching at Chapel Hill until 1928, when he and his wife, Frances (née Black), moved to London upon his reception of a Guggenheim Fellowship to study English drama before 1642.<ref>"Louis Booker Wright," Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/louis-booker-wright/.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Not fully satisfied as a reporter <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for the ''Spartanburg Herald''</ins>, Wright abandoned journalism in 1923 for a position as a teaching assistant in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Master's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1926.<ref>Hard 1968, pages 13-15<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ref> Wright wrote his dissertation on elements of vaudeville in Elizabethan drama.<ref>Louis B. Wright, ''Of Books and Men'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976), page 18</ins>.</ref> He continued teaching at Chapel Hill until 1928, when he and his wife, Frances (née Black), moved to London upon his reception of a Guggenheim Fellowship to study English drama before 1642.<ref>"Louis Booker Wright," Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/louis-booker-wright/.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Folger director==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Folger director==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the death of [[Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr.]], the Library's first director in 1946, the Amherst Board of Trustees approached Wright in 1947 as a candidate for the directorship. He officially began work at the Library <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in summer </del>1948.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After the death of [[Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr.]], the Library's first director in 1946, the Amherst Board of Trustees approached Wright in 1947 as a candidate for the directorship. He officially began work at the Library <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">until July 1, </ins>1948. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wright made a multitude of administrative changes to the Library. He removed a barrier to the entrance of the reading room, permitting easier access to readers, and removing Library guards of their arms. Wright hired Eleanor Pitcher to organize the Library's acquisitions. He and Pitcher continued [[Henry Clay Folger|Henry Clay Folger's]] practice of paying booksellers immediately for purchases; prompt payment of bills generated positive relationships with booksellers and gave the Folger an advantage over other competitive buyers whose bills took longer to process.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 131-132.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref>Louis B. </del>Wright, ''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of Books </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Men</del>'' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, </del>1976<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</del>, pages 136-137.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Under Wright, air conditioning was installed in the building in 1948, an essential change to the hot and stuffy reading room (now the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room). Rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century volumes stored in the reading room were moved down to the vault and replaced with reference works; previously, scholars in need of reference works used those available at the nearby Library of Congress. Wright also shifted the Folger's classification system from one designed specifically for the Library by Edwin Willoughby to the Library of Congress classification system.<ref>Wright 1976, pages 134-135.</ref> Horace Groves and Robert Lunow were hired to direct the photography and conservation departments, respectively.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Under </ins>Wright, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Folger also began a publishing program for staff, the </ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Folger Booklets on Tudor </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Stuart Civilization</ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.<ref>Wright </ins>1976, pages 136-137.</ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This series of short pamphlets allowed staff members to publish research based on their work and interests; wide-ranging topics included Elizabethan travel, Elizabethan gardens, the Spanish Armada, and interactions between Dutch and English culture of the period. </ins></div></td></tr>
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Louis Booker Wright (1899–1984) was an author, scholar, and educator who served as the second director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. <br />
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==Early life==<br />
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Wright was born on March 1, 1899, in Greenwood County, South Carolina. Both of his grandfathers served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War; his paternal grandfather served under James Longstreet, and his maternal grandfather under Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.<ref>Charles Frederick Hard, Louis B. Wright: A Bibliography and an Appreciation (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968), page 3.</ref> In the 1910s, Wright matriculated at Wofford College, but swiftly enlisted in the Student's Army Training Corps, and served for at least sixth months in Plattsburgh, New York, during the First World War. At war's end, he and a veteran of the Army Air Corps worked on government contract as airmail pilots. He soon returned to Wofford to complete his studies, and graduated in 1920 with a B.A. in chemistry. He then became a reporter for a local South Carolina newspaper.<ref>Hard 1969, pages 10-11.</ref><br />
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==Young academic==<br />
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Not fully satisfied as a reporter, Wright abandoned journalism in 1923 for a position as a teaching assistant in the English department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Master's degree in 1924 and his Ph.D. in 1926.<ref>Hard 1968, pages 13-15.</ref> He continued teaching at Chapel Hill until 1928, when he and his wife, Frances (née Black), moved to London upon his reception of a Guggenheim Fellowship to study English drama before 1642.<ref>"Louis Booker Wright," Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed July 30, 2015, http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/louis-booker-wright/.</ref><br />
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==Folger director==<br />
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After the death of [[Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr.]], the Library's first director in 1946, the Amherst Board of Trustees approached Wright in 1947 as a candidate for the directorship. He officially began work at the Library in summer 1948.<br />
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Among the scholarly work Wright completed while director was the first series of Folger editions of [[William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation)|Shakespeare's works]]. Wright arrived as director intending to publish separate edited volumes of each of Shakespeare's plays, though he could not begin work on the project until the end of his first decade as director. Along with executive secretary Virginia LaMar, Wright annotated each play with notes to make the works more accessible to the public, completed after comparing Early modern Folio and Quarto editions of the works with modern editions.<ref>Louis B. Wright, ''Of Books and Men'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1976), pages 136-137.</ref><br />
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==Retirement==<br />
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After his retirement from the Folger in 1968, Wright continued to serve in a variety of organizations as advisor and board member, including the Modern Language Association and the National Geographic Society. He was a trustee for the Harry S. Truman Institute for National and International Affairs, and spoke in 1955 at a Cleveland, Ohio fundraiser for the development of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. <br />
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Wright died on December 26, 1984, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, of cardiovascular disease.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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