Love Among the Archives

Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London’s National Portrait Gallery. WINNER of the 2016 NAVSA Book of the Year Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics’ attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own. After discoverin