Nancy Pearl--the Oklahoma Connection

Nancy Pearl trading the quiet confines of the library for a life of leisure: "Pearl was raised in Detroit, in a family that 'today would be labeled dysfunctional,' she wrote. She credits books and librarians with saving her life.
She became a children's librarian in her hometown library system, just like the ones who inspired her -- Miss Long and Miss Whitehead. She later moved with her professor husband, Joe Pearl, to Oklahoma.
She raised two daughters while earning a master's degree in history, then worked in an independent bookstore as well as the Tulsa City-County Libraries, where she was a popular figure on the level of her early Seattle years.
Craig Buthod, who worked with Pearl in Tulsa before becoming deputy director of the Seattle Public Library, recruited her to come to Seattle 11 years ago."