![]() ![]() Shay’s bookmobile was inspired by Morley’s 1917 novel Parnassus on Wheels. The following year, Shay transformed a converted Ford into “Parnassus on Wheels,” a mobile bookshop that he took to Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the summers. His friend, Frank Shay(1888–1954) opened a bookstore, Frank Shay’s Bookshop, in Greenwich Village in 1920. Morley(1890–1957) was a novelist and journalist who contributed to the Saturday Review of Literature and served as a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. ![]() ![]() The Ransom Center’s Christopher Morley collection documents another bookmobile tradition: traveling bookshops. On National Bookmobile Day, the American Library Association celebrates the 930 bookmobiles in the United States that provide library services to their communities, an important form of library outreach that has been ongoing for more than 100 years. ![]()
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