News & Notes: Breuer '11 wins Adler Prize

Lindsey Breuer ’11 received the 2011 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize for her essay “If Only I Could Apparate, My Harry Potter Collection Would Truly Appreciate” at a dinner on Jan. 29, 2011.

Awarded by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, the $2,000 prize recognizes undergraduates who “have shown the most thought and ingenuity in assembling a collection of books, manuscripts, or other material normally collected by libraries, on a directed theme.” Breuer’s collection consists of foreign-language editions of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone," the first volume of the "Harry Potter" series. It includes, among others, the British, French, Italian, Greek, Australian, Japanese, Spanish, Moroccan versions as well as an Arabic version found in Egypt.

Connor Martin ’13 took the $1,500 second place prize for his essay “The Bookshelf as Biography: On the Lives of Others.”

Brendan Carroll ’11 and Thomas Lowenthal ’11 received honorable mention for their essays “Tracing Shadows” and “The End of the World (as We Know It),” respectively. Carroll is also a columnist for The Daily Princetonian.

The winners also received a certificate from Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and a book from the Princeton University Press that complements their individual collections.