“The Paris Library” marks Janet Skeslien Charles’s second novel of her writing career. Based upon her own experiences working at the American Library in Paris and growing up in rural Montana, Charles ...

While writing the World War II book “The Paris Library,” I became fascinated with the staff of the American Library in Paris. At great peril, these librarians, from the director Dorothy Reeder ...

“The Paris Library,” published Feb. 9, is historical fiction that incorporates Skeslien Charles’ created characters — Odile in 1940s Paris and Lily in 1980s Montana — with the real ...

Paris, July 16, 1960: An American girl (left) and two French youngsters in the reading room set aside for children at the American Library in Paris.

When Gertrude Stein went on a mystery-reading kick, the American Library in Paris fed her doses of 18 whodunits a week; Poet Stephen Vincent Benét researched John Brown's Body within its ...

Gail Martin is joined by Ashley Martin to discuss "The Paris Library." Paris 1939. Young and ambitious, Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer and a great job at the American ...

The Richelieu Reading Room of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, or French National Library, in Paris, isn’t open to the public. But persistence can get you in.

Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.