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Ruth Freitag, librarian to the stars, dies at 96
Ruth Freitag with Isaac Asimov in August 1980. Freitag, a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public, died on Oct. 3, 2020 at a nursing home in Falls Church, Va. She was 96. Library of Congress via The New York Times.
by Katharine Q. Seelye
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a limerick. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan wrote in their introduction to Comet (1985) that one of the most pleasant experiences in writing this book was meeting her. Numerous other science writers acknowledged their debts to her in forewords to their books.
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