BIB_ID
436370
Accession number
MA 23730.10
Creator
Iacocca, Lee A., sender.
Display Date
Highland Park, Michigan, 1990 September 25.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "Chrysler / Corporation / Lee A. Iacocca / Chairman of the Board / Chief Executive Officer."
Addressed to "Mr. John G. Stanger / Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, IL 60160."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Addressed to "Mr. John G. Stanger / Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, IL 60160."
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2020.
Summary
Writing that the most important lesson he learned as a teenager was the joy of reading and that he read everything he could get his hands on; adding that he especially liked the stories of John O'Hara and master storytellers like Dickens, Crane, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and O. Henry, and he also is a big fan of mystery writers, such as Robert Ludlum.
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