Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center: Glen S. Miranker

Description

Glen S. Miranker holds one of the world's greatest collections of materials related to everyone's favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes. In addition to first editions of the Holmes stories, movie posters, and many other kinds of Holmes memorabilia, his collection includes a set of newsletters written and printed in the trenches by soldiers fighting in the First World War. Why? Because these soldiers created Sherlock Holmes fan fiction and published it to share with their fellow combatants, a powerful testament to readers' affection for this modern anti-hero and to the peculiar comfort to be found in detective fiction.

Please join the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center and the Johns Hopkins' Friends of the Libraries for a special talk and show-and-tell. Miranker will discuss how and why Sherlock Holmes is found "in the trenches," and share selections from his collection.

The talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "'This book is not about heroes': Poetry and World War I," curated for the Sheridan Libraries by Writing Seminars senior Lucy Eills. The exhibition is on view through November 16 on M-Level of the MSE Library.