By: Brandon Williams, September 4th, 2022 6:09 pm.
Last month, we wrote about a library in Jamestown, Michigan losing funding over carrying LGBTQ+-themed books.
Good news has arrived in the form of a generous $50,000 donation on the part of bestselling novelist Nora Roberts.
The donation puts the fundraiser well over its $245,000 goal and allows for the Patmos Library to be funded for 2023. The campaign has received 4,600 donations – all of which are surely appreciated and vital to allowing this library to continue running.
Hopefully for the library, it will not require crowdfunding for long and a long-term solution can be worked out soon. However, as reported by NPR, libraries in the United States are becoming a political battleground, and it appears this is unfortunately only the beginning of stories such as this.
As for Nora Roberts, her books are regularly listed on the The New York Times Best Seller List, and have spent many, many weeks in the #1 spot on the prestigious list. While writing contemporary romance under her own name, she also writes as J.D. Robb, which is the pseudonym she uses for her In Death romantic suspense series. Nora was awarded the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and in 2008, the award was renamed to the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award.
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