Selma Lagerlof

One of the unexpected perks of working at a bookstore: yesterday I met the great grand-niece of Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature and a very famous person in Sweden's history. She came into the store to order a Selma Lagerlof book for a friend who was traveling to Sweden, and she was surprised that I knew the author and had read several of her books. She says she'll try and come in when I work some night and show me letters that the author wrote to some of her family in America. Wow!